Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counselors applied for their positions during the year and were interviewed by the directors Monaco says. She adds that the looking for enthusiasm and responsibility, and,above all, enough energy to handle the youngerkids...
...This team just didn't quit," Restic says. "I've been down to the Yale Bowl a few times when we've just had so much enthusiasm coming down here, going through the tunnel, coming out on the field. And there's one danger--that you come out flat. I was never worried about that with this team. They were calm, cool, collected...
...Branch. Some of the most effective opposition has been mounted by staffers who see their future careers hindered. Persuading Congress to whittle away any of its exemptions will be difficult. Hyde notes that the tradition of a double standard runs deep in Washington and Congress has never shown much enthusiasm for curbing its own privileges. Introducing legislation that reminds Congress of its hypocrisy, says Texas Congressman Steve Bartlett, "is a little like bringing a skunk to a garden party...
...from 32% to 70% for liver patients and from 54% to 77% for kidney patients. "By early 1980," recalls Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading transplant surgeon, "we had a sense that there was a tremendous change in outlook in both kidneys and livers, and that enthusiasm quickly spread to the heart." Cyclosporine is highly toxic, however, and researchers have begun to look for alternatives. Ideally, they foresee a therapy that would prevent rejection but also persuade the immune system to tolerate a transplanted organ even after treatment is halted...
...Reagans' enthusiasm for astrology comes as a small, slightly goofy revelation, an old Hollywood side of them that has turned up in Washington, a detail endearing and unbidden and embarrassing. Ronald Reagan has always been a lucky man. Perhaps he and his wife find that the zodiac is a means to codify, organize and predict his luck. Movie stars are suckers for astrology, partly because their business is even less rational than the rest of American life. Great egos need great horoscopes...