Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following a Council poll to determine student enthusiasm for the program, the University decided that a 65 percent approval rating was not enough to warrant an austerity program for the entire University. The matter was turned over to the jurisdiction of the Houses, and finally to the individual students themselves...
...Habibie's business enthusiasm was lavished on the public sector. Like his mentor, he dabbled lucratively in private enterprise through his family. The Habibie clan controls two large conglomerates--the Timsco Group, named after his younger brother Timmy, and the Repindo Panca Group, headed by his second son Tareq Kamal Habibie. Many of the more than 66 companies in these two groups have fed off contracts from the state enterprises Habibie oversaw as Technology Minister, says sociologist George Aditjondro of the University of Newcastle in Australia. That does not bode well for a clean government under a Habibie presidency...
...showed that students with access to the Internet not only presented their final projects in more creative ways but also turned in work that was more complete and had better syntheses of different points of view. Numerous other studies show that children in technology-rich learning environments showed more enthusiasm, had higher attendance rates, developed better writing skills and displayed a greater capacity to communicate effectively about complex problems...
...amazed about all of the officers' enthusiasm and sense of duty. If I didn't know better, I would say they must have all known I was coming and planned to say hello to the priest and take blind people out to dinner and talk passionately about respect...
...nerd watch on Family Matters began a few weeks after its debut in September 1989, when the show's ostensible stars, the Winslow family, were visited by the kid next door, a nasal-voiced geek with huge glasses, pants hiked to his armpits and unflagging enthusiasm. Played with Jerry Lewis abandon by Jaleel White, the character caught on with audiences and quickly pulled a Fonzie, taking over the series. As years went on, the show grew increasingly outlandish. White--now well into adolescence and towering over actors he once looked up to, his high-pitched whine making him sound less...