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Word: enthusiasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Congress may yet pass the health legislation Obama wants. If it does, that success will reflect the Democrats' numbers in Congress and their determination, not public enthusiasm. This time there is no barrage of Harry and Louise ads to blame. It is health care reform's own contradictions that are causing it to sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fatal Flaw of Obamacare | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...cash and build support networks in one of China's most populous provinces. But much of the donations collected over the past year ended up being funneled through local governments, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Beijing's Tsinghua University. And the initial burst of volunteer enthusiasm following the disaster has tapered dramatically. (See pictures of the aftermath of the Sichuan quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sichuan Quake Donations Now Under State Control | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...court next week on charges of judicial misconduct. They charge that Keller refused a condemned man a last-minute appeal in 2007. Now she faces a trial in a San Antonio courtroom that could lead to her removal and will certainly focus wide attention on Texas' enthusiasm for the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Texas Judge on Trial: Closed to a Death-Row Appeal? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...grounds of Stone Barns and who serves as the center's creative director, was determined to find out. He persuaded the center's farmers to dedicate part of their pasture to geese and to feed them the highest quality organic corn. There was only one problem: in his enthusiasm, Barber had somehow missed the importance of letting the birds forage for their own food. Accustomed to a steady supply of grain, Stone Barns' trial geese had no need to gorge themselves once the weather turned chilly. "They were delicious," recalls Barber. "But their livers were the size of Ping-Pong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Ethical Foie Gras Happen in America? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...home thinking about sentence structures than pounding and slapping hands with street-smart New York City students out in the physical world. After I bungled the handshakes, I always felt cold and distant. But I wanted to get to know B better. From the start, I admired his unselfconscious enthusiasm...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese | Title: Body and Soul | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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