Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurries off to a health spa near city hall. The manager opens it early so that Koch can ride the exercise bicycle, do sets of 17 sit-ups and bench presses, and jog a mile on the treadmill-all before going to work at 8 a.m., fit and eager for the day's crises. "Being mayor is a 24-hour-a-day job," says Koch. And that's how many hours he is fit and eager...
Buyers, including the banks, pension funds and other large institutions that account for 70% of share-trading activity, have been so eager to buy stocks that a total of 1,021 billion shares changed hands in July alone, the second busiest month in Wall Street history; the heaviest was last January, when prices also rose sharply, only to be sent plunging down later when inflation and interest rates climbed into double digits. The hunger for stocks has lifted not only the Dow's lately depressed industrials but also the broad stock averages. Since the end of March, the composite...
...already is. As unemployment has ticked upward and inflation has put a tighter and tighter squeeze on family budgets, more and more Americans have either been staying home or going on cheaper vacations. Though even a week at the seashore now seems expensive to many Americans, Europeans are eager to take advantage of what appear to them to be fire-sale prices. While persistent high inflation is a relatively recent problem for the U.S., a number of European nations have wrestled with it for years, and their own prices have climbed to alpine heights. The late 1970s slide...
...apocalyptic Class of '84 who expect to ride into Harvard on a wave of freedom may find yourselves drenched. You will be horses ridden by jocular jockeys, anxious to introduce you to Life at Harvard. You will find yourself in a race with 1600 other eager ponies, most of whom will fashion fabulous pretenses designed as armor for insecurity. The key to Freshman Week, then, is not to let the blinders keep you from seeing straight...
...right began to learn its lesson. A man named Richard Vigurie looked fondly at the power of the Sierra Club or the anti-war groups to mobilize support, and decided to go them one better. His computer bank now contains more than 20 million names, most of them eager to give cash to anyone or anything that will help uphold decency, religion and high profits. The anti-feminists, formerly too demure to march and lobby, now scream shrilly about co-ed bathrooms; the pro-life contingent bombs clinics and pesters legislators. Liberals seem to be slowly emerging from the alfalfa...