Word: joying
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...It’s such a joy for me to see the recent market response,” said Fryer, who has been meeting with school officials every day for the past three weeks to drum up support for his idea, He will roll out the first stage of the proposal in 20 elementary schools and 20 middle schools beginning in the fall...
Sitting with strangers isn't always a success; getting stuck with someone boring is never a joy, and a bad date can infect the entire table. But unlike a dinner party, a shared table allows you to order what you want, and there's no obligation to talk to the person next to you. Getting to know your neighbors, however, is often part of the fun. Those at such tables tend to be more sociable, like DiGangi and Natt-Irom. At Buddakan that night, the interaction between groups started with food ("Oh, what's that?" as a plate of shaken...
...Poland, former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, once a strong supporter of close ties with America, recently denounced the missile defense initiative, writing, "If the Bush administration expects Poles and Czechs to jump for joy and agree to whatever is proposed, it's going to face a mighty crash with reality. The administration might have gotten away with this five years ago, when the memory of Ronald Reagan's steadfast support for our freedom fighters had just been bolstered by American advocacy of NATO enlarge... But the war in Iraq has dented Central European trust." Many Poles are also upset...
...while the housing lottery still generates the tension, joy, and social crisis it did 28 years ago, the randomization of the results has stripped the Houses of their unique personalities. Here was an area where my young students were eager to hear tales of “Old Harvard” about rowdy jocks in Kirkland, Master’s Sherries in Lowell, bohemians in the Adams House pool, and popped collars in Eliot. More than a few expressed the wish that they could have known that Harvard...
...Some of the attrition is due to the nature of science itself. For me, the joy of science in high school was its rigorous approach to knowledge, its entertaining parlor tricks, and a few spectacular teachers. At Harvard, I learned that science has less to do with classroom stink bombs and more to do with performing tedious lab work, deciphering tedious journal articles, and pouring out dozens of lines of tedious algebra. The basics are difficult to learn. Even the smallest headway in research requires enormous personal dedication. And, of course, the field is inherently cumulative, so advanced study necessitates...