Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time in coming to the field of superconductivity. "Until recently," says John Ketterson, a physicist at Northwestern University, "people were glum. There hadn't been a breakthrough in a long time. Funding was drying up. This has sent everyone back into the field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury, among others) to generate significant magnetic...
Guys and Dolls is blessed with catchy, danceable music by Frank Loesser, and the K-house production doesn't let it go to waste. Combining the strong singing voices, the lively comic wit of the four lead actors and the enthusiasm brought by the actors in the smaller roles, this version of the frequently revived show shines at virtually every moment...
...clear analysis, vivid descriptions andsuperior lecturing skills aside, this singularability to generate more enthusiasm for learningmakes Professor Brinkley's contribution to hisstudents invaluable," Woo said...
...Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says, "I think it will prove unsatisfactory. In this area nothing is satisfactory...
...Committee, have resurrected the fear that the zero option may be decoupling. Some Europeans are concerned that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and other leaders have invested so much political capital in forcing through the deployments despite domestic opposition that it would be awkward for them now to feign enthusiasm for the total removal of the missiles...