Word: gung-ho
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TIMOTHY MCVEIGH A gung-ho former soldier is charged with the worst act of home-grown terrorism...
...YOUNG, GUNG-HO MAJOR SALT (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is eager to impress his bosses by describing the fatal cunning of the Motaba virus-how it rapidly turns a healthy body into a bloody, pustulous corpse. "That's very good, Major," says Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) wryly. "We've read that in a book...
...addition to worries about raising money, finding time away from their families and exposing their private lives. (A second survey by Lake of a more likely pool for recruits -- executives, lawyers and activists -- also favored men, 38 to 25 percent, though 58 percent of women activists alone were gung-ho.) If women do run, an earlier Caucus study found, they are just as likely...
...produced an abrasive essay in gung-ho gigantism. True Lies is a remake of Claude Zidi's 1992 French film La Totale!, a teeny domestic farce about a spy (Thierry Lhermitte) whose neglected wife (Miou-Miou) thinks he works for the phone company. In Cameron's version, Schwarzenegger is the secret agent, Jamie Lee Curtis is his wife -- and the sky is the limit. Cameron has taken another out-of-favor genre (the James Bond thriller), welded it to romantic comedy and upped the ante until the fates of a marriage, the world and a few A-list reputations dangle...
Similarly foreign languages also pose particular challenges for dyslexic students. Alice Garside, Meisel's predecessor at MGH, says, "One of the things that worries me in the renewed focus of education is everyone is going gung-ho about learning foreign languages. But what they have to recognize is that it's going to be extremely difficult for some students...