Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Impossible Project has been greeted with enthusiasm from Polaroid fans, art photographers and the international media. "It has been unbelievable," Kaps says of the response. "If we are successful, then this has wider implications. We are no art project, not a venture of some madmen - we want to be a thriving business for at least 10 years." Which should give instant-photography lovers plenty to smile about...
...around wizard rock, punk is a good place to start. Like punk, this is a subculture in which the fundamental poles of popular culture, cool and uncool, have no meaning. Nerds tend to be very comfortable with powerful, unironized emotion--Harry and the Potters' 2008 tour was titled Unlimited Enthusiasm. As the poet said, they're too busy singing to put anybody down...
That was then; this is now. Strong government incentives and regulations, car and battery-maker innovations and the public's genuine concern for global warming are all contributing to the EV enthusiasm. But utilities are working feverishly to put infrastructure standards in place; the prospect of managing rapid EV growth has utility executives both amped up over the opportunity and queasy about unplanned snafus...
...SoCal Edison and other utilities, like San Diego Gas & Electric, are hoping early-adopter enthusiasm and new infrastructure upgrades in hot e-car zip codes, like Santa Monica and Newport Beach, will overcome these early market glitches. (See the history of the electric...
...Health care experts and faculty interviewed by The Crimson cited the growing primary care crisis in the U.S. and the accelerating health care reform movement as factors driving the enthusiasm behind the growing petition, as well as reasons that HMS ought to commit more firmly to improving primary care education. According to a 2008 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, only 2 percent of medical students said that they were planning on becoming general internal medicine physicians, even while the number of older Americans who depend on such first-stop doctors is expected to double between...