Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growth of Medicare, aiming tax cuts at families, allowing for more choice in education, pushing for tougher criminal penalties, promoting freer trade, spending millions on antimissile defense research, and talking about campaign-finance reform but not doing anything about it. The differences are essentially of degree or speed or enthusiasm. Their most passionate fights are over such issues as late-term abortion, which disturb many people but affect very...
...Their enthusiasm makes some sense. Smart highways, with their mechanized legions of cars racing along in perfect, synchronized formation, should have fewer accidents and produce less pollution than today's freewheeling freeways. And it may be cheaper to make today's highways smart enough to carry heavier traffic loads than to build new railroads or monorails from scratch...
Neither do I, anymore. As I have acknowledged before, my loyalty to the Kansas City Blues of the American Association was of such intensity and purity that their demise pretty much ended my interest in the game. It's not easy to work up enthusiasm for a bunch of strangers...
...candidate Boyce Davis dropped out, and within two days had cranked out her first campaign pins. Flying a family-values banner, Henry, a professor of law, embarked on a four-day, 16-town campaign tour with dozens of her current and former students working for her election. Despite the enthusiasm, in this Republican district she is an underdog...
...definitely a young team. But with that youngness comes the enthusiasm which I think can be real strength," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "I'm really excited about what I see from the younger players...