Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once the motorcade passes out of sight, the crowd immediately loses most of its enthusiasm, as if its only real purpose in gathering was to place a particular image in Jiang's personal visual narrative. And yet I can't help but realize that if the Chinese President was sitting on the wrong side of the car as it turned past the crowd, there's a good chance he missed the whole thing...
...Friday night, we marked a holiday that almost always manages to pass without comment. Every kid loves Halloween, but enthusiasm for the holiday among the young is no excuse for dismissing it as "childish" rather than examining it seriously. Halloween is seen as a fact of life, an amusing bench-mark in the celebratory vacancy that stretches from Columbus Day to Veterans Day. But history has some explaining to do when it comes to Halloween; its prominent place in the American calendar requires some justification. Indeed, it's a strange bird...
There are several places in the world that carry a certain rowdy form of ambiance that make a sports fan exclaim with enthusiasm, "This is what it's all about...
...enthusiasm of its promoters, the ex-gay movement has been beset by failures since its inception...
...challenge is more inviting to Bill Clinton than a voting bloc on the verge of slipping away. Take the Teamsters: Clinton had broken the union's long-standing alliance with Republicans, but by early 1995 its enthusiasm had "died down," an Administration memo says. So Clinton's team went to work. Harold Ickes, then the deputy chief of staff, and Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, took pains to help Teamster president Ron Carey deal with a bitter California strike, according to interviews and documents obtained by TIME. While the White House overture failed to win concessions for the Teamsters...