Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's appeal stirred little enthusiasm on Capitol Hill, though an estimated 35 million Americans, including...
Marine Corps enthusiasm may be the root of the Harrier's troubles. General Carey acknowledges that the decision to assign young pilots fresh from flight school to qualify as pilots of the complicated Harrier, along with the Marines' usual penchant for difficult missions, may have been factors in the crashes. Senior officers in the British Royal Air Force agree...
...similar views-he saw red over a story about group sex that he found tasteless-but rarely loses his temper and always bubbles with enthusiasm for the task at hand, whether weeding his garden or pruning his executive ranks. "The idea that a publisher sits up here and issues directives, wields great power and smites people to their knees is a lot of baloney," he says. "But it's a lot of fun. It's the best job in the world...
Says Lehndorff's U.S. general manager, M. Thomas Lardner: "The enthusiasm of the Europeans for U.S. farm land is unbelievable." In Houston, Banker Richard Reneberg complains that "a problem we're faced with is coming up with enough good property to satisfy foreign investors...
...State Supreme Court on 137 counts of larceny and falsifying records. "I don't wear dark glasses when I went to be booked," she told TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin in her heavily accented English. "Everything will be done openly as 1 have led my life." With first-nighter enthusiasm, she gushed over the mug shots taken as she was booked, pronouncing them "the best. I have short hair now; I look better than ever." And what about the many charges against her? "I have every good intention," she said. "In all my life, no one ever lost money with...