Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst way to tackle the problem would be to blame the technology itself. But the way that technology is put to use does deserve a more critical look, and not the unabashed enthusiasm everything e-related receives now. Before we rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...
...enthusiasm for the hard-line approach started in Chicago. Since 1996, after Mayor Richard Daley took control of the school system and appointed his budget chief, Paul Vallas, as its chief executive, the city has used standardized-test scores to help determine whether students should move to the next grade. In the year before the new approach, less than 2% of students were forced to repeat a grade; last year close to 15% of third-, sixth- and eighth-graders were retained. The city spent $24 million last year on summer programs designed to give kids one last chance to pass...
...Glamour was change the annual college competition from the best dressed to the most accomplished, to focus on women's achievements, not their hairdos. She created Glamour's Women of the Year awards, and I got to know her after the magazine honored me in 1992. Her enthusiasm for women's triumphs was contagious. I watched as she took real pleasure in honoring the incredible women who were busting barriers and raising hell. She did both...
...exciting place to be in 1995,and several [members of the class] were galvanizedinto action almost immediately after our arrivalon campus," Rawlins says. "The activism was inlarge part born of our own enthusiasm and from thementoring we received as first-years from veteranstudent activists and leaders...
...team's performance at Easterns was the highlight of the season, when all the team's energy and enthusiasm came together to produce their finest polo play of the year...