Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's givebacks, coupled with its decision to put off Reagan's tax-reform speech for a week until Congress finishes wrestling with the budget, have begun to deflate tax-reform proponents on Capitol Hill. "I'm losing my enthusiasm," says House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, whose backing is essential to tax reform. He is particularly put off by the Administration's cave-in to the oil lobby. "I told Jim Baker that the measure of the man will be where you go with energy. But that didn't penetrate...
David D. Watson '86 transferred this year from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Although he admits to the same housing problems that plague all transfer students, his enthusiasm for being at Harvard overrides everything...
...hoopla worthy of a glamorous growth industry. But at last week's extravaganza in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, the glamour was tempered by a touch of gloom. Attendance was disappointing, most of the new products were unexciting, and exhibitors were hard pressed to drum up enthusiasm. Even the shapely brunet in a bright-red leotard who was posted in front of the NEC Corp. booth did not attract a crowd. Summed up Morton Goldman, vice president of Elek-Tek, a Chicago-area retailer: "We're very disappointed. This business is in trouble right...
...lack of competition in the lightweight division is a result of a dearth of funding and enthusiasm for lightweight programs at Eastern colleges Coach K C Dietz says the most difficult part of the season is finding races...
...Sandinistas clearly felt that the public departure ritual was necessary to reassure Congress that the vote against contra aid was the right decision. For all its newfound enthusiasm concerning embargoes, the Administration is equally convinced that support for the rebels remains essential. As one of his last official acts last week Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, declared that "the President still firmly believes in support for the freedom fighters." Motley, a former Alaska real estate developer who resigned in order to return to business, has had his . differences with both hard-liners and "ultra...