Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the best efforts of this short-handed squad, Harvard was usually found at the bottom of the scoreboard. This was not for a lack of effort, however, as the team displayed hard work and enthusiasm throughout the year...
...Dean's Office greeted Stuntz's acceptance with enthusiasm...
...names of all of my Harvard acquaintances. And I might think it was a little weird if one of my friends did. But I no longer consider it strange that an old high school friend and member of the class of 2003 approached me, and unable to contain her enthusiasm at her recent acceptance, whispered to me conspiratorially "I'm a member of the club...
...swings that have intensified past slumps. Computers make it much easier to match orders and deliveries of goods to sales. On the other hand, Sinai senses an enhanced source of instability--the frenzied pace of stock and real estate trading, speeded up by the Internet and intensified by the enthusiasm of investors for Internet stocks, some of which may take many years to justify their current prices, if they ever do. The result may be a "bubble" of inflated prices for some Internet and IT companies, ending in a crash. Varian observes that the vastly greater speed of business information...
...afraid of this kind of behavior. His Harper's Magazine review of Jedediah Purdy '97's first book, For Common Things, is one of the most vitriolic and least clever put-downs I have ever read; when its negativity is contrasted with Purdy's obvious and infectuous enthusiasm for the many things he loves and praises, the review also begins to seem strikingly sad. In his preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That Purdy's sincerity can become...