Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hormone-replacement therapy (HRT). The risk of uterine cancer, in particular, can be virtually eliminated, experts say, by adding synthetic progesterone (progestin) to the estrogen prescription, either combined in one capsule or as a separate pill. Meanwhile a raft of studies showing new and unexpected benefits has propelled medical enthusiasm for the treatment to huge, if not quite Wilsonian, proportions. Estrogen, it seems, can prevent or slow many of the ravages of aging, including...
Given all this, it's no wonder doctors are handing out estrogen prescriptions with almost gleeful enthusiasm. According to researchers at the Food and Drug Administration, estrogen prescriptions in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 1992. About a quarter of U.S. women at or past menopause -- roughly 10 million -- take the hormone, making estrogen a billion-dollar business. As baby boomers approach menopause, those numbers will skyrocket...
...artists' enthusiasm impressed Okamoto, who designed the pages on which their works appear: "To approach six top women illustrators in one week and have them all say yes is pretty wonderful." The women, for their part, think it's pretty wonderful to get challenging work in what is still a male-dominated field. "Drawing for a living is a tough business for everybody," Chast says, but adds that the career does offer certain advantages for women because they can set their own hours, work from home and spend time with their children. (Chast...
...electronically) had frightened other online provocateurs and promised to be a test-case for censorship in cyberspace. TIME's Wendy Cole, who has interviewed Baker, says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that the government lost enthusiasm for the case "once it recognized that the communication which so much alarmed the University of Michigan officials was only a rather savage and tasteless piece of fiction...
...some see the city's failure as a lack of enthusiasm and commitment to the goals of affirmative action, first outlined in Cambridge...