Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although some state legislators expressed enthusiasm for the bill, they said they were skeptical about the measure's chance of making it to the Governor's desk...
...righthanded fast-baller (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag), Armstrong arrived at the Reds' camp this spring full of enthusiasm and good deeds. "I've waited 22 years for an opportunity to pitch in the major leagues," he says, meaning he must have been contemplating it at the age of one. "He'd run through that wall if you asked him to," smiles Manager Pete Rose, who has finished running through walls himself. But Jack Armstrong will probably begin the season in the minors, in some small and scrubby place appropriate to bright starts...
There were no grand themes, no cutting issues, no electric enthusiasm for any candidate save Jackson and his over-the-rainbow dreams. Rather than a Democratic referendum, the Super Tuesday primaries turned out to be little more than a multiple-choice exam in which voters chose their favorite 30- second TV spots. Both Dukakis and Gore invested heavily in negative ads to define themselves in opposition to the pseudo populism of Richard Gephardt. The get-Gephardt pincer attack worked: the Missouri Congressman carried only his home state and faded from contention. While Dukakis, Gore and Jackson all had ample reason...
HUCTW had originally planned to take only one busload of supporters to the NLRB, said Kris Rondeau, HUCTW director. But when employees' enthusiasm indicated that one bus would not carry everyone who wanted to go, the union hired a second bus yesterday morning...
...producer, Carney says he was responsible for "finding the 100 person staff." He says that he looked for experienced people to fill his technical crew, but that enthusiasm sometimes made up for training when he made the final selections...