Word: gung-ho
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...while a brand-new campus boasting ample room may be alluring, not all professors are gung-ho about an Allston move...
...launch terror attacks starting the next day. Some 110 G.I.s plus 40 members of the new Iraqi Civilian Defense Corps training with Alpha Company move in to seal off the area. "I hope we get some of these guys," says Voelkel. The grunts under his command are less gung-ho. "I hope no one's there," says Specialist Todd Herwood as the convoy rolls forward. "Raiding a mosque? These things just give Iraqis an excuse to get angry...
...never again develop a new jetliner," says Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst at the Teal Group. "Even debating the issue casts doubts on its commitment to its current airplanes." Boeing's board hasn't officially given the go-ahead for the jet, which would start flying in 2008. But gung-ho Boeing executives have outlined to TIME their plans to launch the 7E7 and to build it in a revolutionary way. Rather than send parts to the final assembly site by truck and train for piecemeal manufacturing, Boeing's contractors will build complete component systems (a fully wired wing...
Chilton Honors: Class Valedictorian Harvard Memories: After being gung-ho Harvard since birth, Rory ultimately decides to stay closer to home and attend Yale. Putz!Rory’s mother on Yale: “Sweetie, have you ever been to New Haven? . . .Take a look at the coffee pot tomorrow before I clean it: that’s New Haven...
...admired for its skills at waging guerrilla warfare; early this year, members of the U.S. Green Berets visited Beit Lid to pick up pointers on how to conduct urban combat in Iraq. Still, most of the unit's members are in their early 20s, driven less by any gung-ho thirst for combat than by a weighty sense of national duty. "You have to do it," says Uri, 23, a lieutenant in the reconnaissance unit. "It's an obligation to myself and to my country." Uri's boss, Captain Dan, is even less sentimental. "I'm not here to save...