Word: spirited
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...tried a dozen names, but none stuck. Finally, one day, Peter was watching television, and he turned to me and said, ‘Just call me Peter, like Peter Rabbit!’” While those closest to Cai remembered his abundant spirit, those who knew him in a professional context spoke of his dedication and reliability, as well as his wide breadth of knowledge. “When Peter wrote to me as a freshman asking to work in my lab, I couldn’t believe his resume,” said biology professor Thomas...
Some acquaintances say that Soetoro-Ng has the independent spirit of her mother, Stanley Ann, who took young Maya along when she went to Indonesia and Africa to pursue her master's and doctoral degrees studying and helping village craftsmen (Barack was left behind to be raised by Madelyn Dunham and her late husband Stanley in the 10th story Beretania duplex in the Makiki area of Honolulu). Nevertheless, cautioned by her brother's campaign advisers, Soetoro-Ng always watches her words, knowing how easily the words of a relative can reflect in unintended ways on the candidate...
...directors, in the spirit of student-administrator collaboration, took notes on some of the ideas, which included a fund for student sustainable entrepreneurship and a unified directory of on-campus environmental research...
...fact, while the parties may be jointly lifting the national mood, the bipartisan spirit burns no brighter in Westminster than in Washington. Even as they declared a truce over the financial meltdown, British pols were trading blows. "We meet at a time of national anxiety," Osborne told delegates at the Conservative party conference on Sept. 29. He asserted that his party was determined to make rich bankers pay for the mess they had helped to create. "Unlike New Labour we are not bedazzled by big money," he said...
...developed world, much of this work is done in the spirit of “green development,” or use of the de-carbonization movement to propel growth rather than impede it. That movement in and of itself is incredibly unique, as environmental communities in high-income countries have generally been divorced from the rest of the polity. Phil Angelides, director of the Apollo Alliance, an American energy independence project, believes that a global transition to a low-carbon economy would create jobs and over time become the primary engine of development. Angelides notes that between...