Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whitten says that he swims to keep in shape and stay healthy. But he has another reason for swimming that relates to his studies as a behavioral anthropologist. For a long time, Whitten has been interested in gerontology, which is study of aging.
But fear not, Feldstein doesn't intend to actually require students to take the course. No, my fellow rationally self-interested actors, that would result in less-than-optimal utility. The T.F. said that Feldstein is seeking suggestions on attracting people to Ec 10 of their own volition--with market...
Referring to the commencement address, Gould said yesterday, "I'll start thinking about it two or three days before, that's the way good speeches are made. You speak about what you are most passionately interested in at the moment."
The clients at the fitness clinics are predominantly female. Despite the difficulty of buying chic clothes, Soviet women are quite fashion conscious and seem more interested than men in keeping their figures. Moreover, most men prefer to exercise outdoors rather than in a fitness center.
At the Tashkent-based Muslim board for Central Asia, the most important of the four government-imposed bureaucracies for Soviet Islam, Deputy Chairman Abdulgani Abdulla recalls that "almost nobody was interested in religion" in the 1960s. Now, he reports, large numbers are becoming active believers, many of them young people...