Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time is ripe for some form of public service initiative spearheaded by the federal government. I strongly believe that there is great enthusiasm for college public service nationwide. Let's not put a damper on this movement by placing a dollar value on community work, and making public service a condition for receiving financial...
Kinder, Gentler Conservatives Dept.: The homeless should be happy to learn that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has pledged to aggressively enforce the McKinney Act, a measure that would transform unused, federally owned buildings into homeless shelters. Kemp's new-found enthusiasm for the bill is strange, considering that he voted against the act as a member of Congress...
...audience applauds when the curtain comes up on the set, a swank Washington hotel suite, and again for the arrivals of the four leading players, each familiar from a TV series. Alas, those are just about the final occasions for enthusiasm in the labored, preachy and mostly unfunny revival of Born Yesterday that opened on Broadway this week. When the show debuted in 1946, it made stars of Paul Douglas and Judy Holliday and cemented the reputation of playwright Garson Kanin as a wry social commentator...
...summit with the White House, but the feint did nothing to hurt the mood on Wall Street: the New York Stock Exchange surged all week, closing Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously. "He didn't need a prepared text," marveled Philadelphia Democrat Bill Gray...
...Some of the younger students from Cambodia have never gone to school," says Green. "Their schools were taken away, their teachers massacred; and they were sent to work." Green adds that while these experiences have not dampened the students' enthusiasm, they have often left them with little self-confidence in educational settings...