Word: enthusiasm
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...enthusiasm for everything he did infected many of us in the House and his smile is something that we will never forget,” he wrote...
...civic-mindedness required to, say, pool money to buy some carp to take care of the pond's grass, has not exactly taken root in this environment. The owners spend every spare minute of the summer working on their dachas, but have no enthusiasm for doing anything for the greater good. "It's not that people can't afford it," says a homeowner who gives her name only as Tanya, "it is that people do not believe that if they hand over some money, no matter how small, and no matter how positive the cause, that something will actually come...
...ones we’ll recycle, the bad ones we’ll trash,” Sundquist’s fellow Dorm Crew Captain Marcelo Cerullo ’10 said. The reason for the sacking of students’ fluffy head-companions was an apparent lack of enthusiasm for their presence, according to Yardops’ Associate Director of Regional Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98. “We found that many students didn’t use the University-provided pillows and we didn’t want to continue to be providing...
...Ovum analyst Jonathan Arber, Nokia is frustrated that operators' own cellular music download services, "have ramped up very slowly," he says. "They haven't been the killer application people thought they would be." A combination of high and confusing pricing, and services often criticized as clunky, have dampened users' enthusiasm. Perhaps Universal Music Group International chairman Lucian Grainge was jabbing at operators' services when he lauded Nokia's move this week. "It's good for music - and good for our artists - that consumers can easily find and buy the songs they want, when they want. That's why we welcome...
...Friends and strangers responded to my newly revealed natural hair color in one of two ways: a sort of proud, sometimes sanctimonious right-on-sister enthusiasm from fellow gray-haired women or an equally proud, sometimes resentful don't-judge-my-choices-I-do-this-to-feel-good-about-me defensiveness in the comments of the committed-to-dyeing cohort. Hardly anyone was lukewarm in their reactions, which suggests to me we may have a contentious new baby-boomer argument over gray hair that is as mutually judgmental as the mommy wars between working and stay-at-home mothers...