Word: overenthusiasm
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...surprisingly, the fitness boom among older adults has led to a spike in sports injuries. Exercise newbies may suffer from flare-ups of old injuries or normal age-related wear and tear of tendons and joints. Overenthusiasm is another problem. "They make the mistake of upping the ante too far and too fast, doubling the time or the mileage," says Dr. Doug McKeag, director of sports medicine at Indiana University. A few minutes of warm-up and cool down, instruction from a certified trainer and appropriate safety gear can help...
...member cast is so individualistic that it fails to come together as an ensemble. Each cast member is so strongly his or her own person that the audience cannot focus on the cast as a whole even during the large production numbers. Furthermore, the show suffers from overenthusiasm--every piece is so heavily choreographed with dramatic, funny or just plain dumb movements that the audience is left wishing that the actors would simply mellow...
...Corp., charged Leahy with making "misleading" statements in the peddling of $230,000 of the company's now nearly worthless stock. Responded former Hamilton Vice President Leahy, who suffered a business-induced nervous breakdown last year: "I feel that the SEC knows that I am guilty only of overenthusiasm and lack of experience. If it is God's last act on earth for me, I'll repay all the friends and relatives who bought stock on my personal recommendation...
Such internal pressure inevitably produces occasional overenthusiasm on the part of salesmen. Tannymen drew so many complaints in New York that the state attorney general's office last summer persuaded the gyms to sign a fair practices code to prohibit methods of selling that are deceitful, fraudulent or misleading. The New York complaints have slowed to a trickle. Actually, many of the complaints against Tanny across the U.S. are caused by fatigue, not fraud. Many a newly won health and exercise bug gets drooping wings after a few weeks or months of working out. His enthusiasm gone, he wants...
...statistics were to be believed, it was no exaggeration. Last week, in its annual World Economic Survey, the United Nations proclaimed (and the Herald Tribune published) that Red China's industrial and agricultural output for 1958 had jumped 65% over the year before. Even making allowances for statistical overenthusiasm, the U.N. still estimated that the increase in national product "seems to have been of the order of 50%." While the U.S. gross national product dropped nearly i%, according to the figures, China's national product had shot up five times as fast as that of the Soviet Union...