Word: enthusiasm
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...Hitlerite, who dies leaving him an invaluable stamp collection she has liberated from a Holocaust victim. The proceeds from its sale enable him to buy the spa, which is where the new Communist regime finds him and, in essence, punishes him as much for his lack of current ideological enthusiasm as for his wartime collaboration with the enemy...
...Budget flexibility would help prevent bureaucrats and politicians from making things worse. To make things better, the administration needs to get Japan back on the road to structural economic reform. Since Fukuda became Prime Minister last September, he has not shown much enthusiasm for reform. Now is the time to review this nonagenda. A good place to start would be tax cuts. Japan's effective corporate tax rate of 40% is the highest among developed economies; it should be reduced to 35% or even less. This would not only enhance the international competitiveness of Japanese firms but also give incentives...
...been at or near the top of France's sales charts for 102 straight weeks since its September 2006 publication. It has been translated into a half-dozen languages and is being adapted for film. In South Korea and Italy, the book has generated the same sort of enthusiasm and devotion that made it a publishing phenomenon in France. Now, with the release of an English translation on Sept. 7, Elegance is pursuing a goal that has proved devilishly elusive for modern French novelists: success in the U.S. and Britain. Barbery acknowledges the challenge. "But given what the book...
Obama also had a wide lead over McCain on level of enthusiasm among supporters in the 18-24 age bracket, with 83% of Obama supporters saying that they were at least “excited” about the election, versus 56% for McCain. However, a plurality of young voters (31% to 28%) said they trusted McCain to be a better commander-in-chief than Obama – despite disproportionately trusting Obama to better handle foreign policy and the war in Iraq...
...nuclear program, and on that front, Russian cooperation is essential. If the Israelis are to achieve their objective of forcing Iran to end uranium enrichment through diplomatic coercion, they will need Russian support for escalating U.N. sanctions - a course of action for which Russia has thus far shown little enthusiasm. And if Israel were to opt for trying to destroy Tehran's nuclear facilities through a series of air strikes, then the presence of the sophisticated Russian S-300 missile system in Iran would considerably raise the risk to Israeli pilots. Unfortunately for Israel, however, there may be little...