Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says that in the early stages of the negotiations many of the team members were skeptical of the project, but, as they began to work, enthusiasm built. Breslin, who is now the director of publications for the Project on Negotiation, notes that many of Malden's residents remain uninformed about the city's problems and must be better informed before they will support some of the recommendations...
Even more important, perhaps, was the problem of how to rekindle enthusiasm for the post-World War II dream of a united and cohesive Western Europe capable of assuming a superpower's role in world affairs. The low voter turnout for last month's European parliamentary elections had sent the leaders an unmistakable message: support for that ideal among many citizens is flagging. Moreover, election gains by splinter parties of the left and right heralded a growing popular discontent with politics as usual...
Though the vote was not binding, the demonstrated opposition quelled the University's enthusiasm for the project...
Among Democrats of every philosophical tint there is some pick-a-woman sentiment. The enthusiasm seems motivated more by wishful political calculation than by feminist feeling. Says Wisconsin Party Chairman Matthew Flynn: "Mondale has only one chance to win this election-if he picks a woman. He has to take a gamble." Ferraro, 48, is the leading female contender. As an Italian American from the East, Ferraro would provide political leavening. Feinstein, 50, the impressive Jewish mayor of a hip city, would help compensate for the nominee's Midwestern squareness...
Other patients share Janszen's enthusiasm for CAN. A. Donald Hodges, 52, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Westport, Conn., in recent years has undergone surgery twice for cancer. Thanks to the Corporate Angels, on both occasions he was able to deliver his Sunday-morning sermon and still arrive at Leigh Memorial Hospital in Norfolk by Monday morning. Says Hodges: "I'm impressed by the fact that someone cares and is offering a helping hand." Concurs Harry Kass of Brooklyn, 23, who last April flew on an AT&T company plane from San Francisco to Morristown...