Word: enthusiastically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the company's first shot -- the DEFT system to diagnose troubles in IBM's giant disk drives -- proved a bull's-eye, IBM Chairman John Akers became an enthusiast. He gave Schorr the green light to promote expert systems throughout the company. IBM now has 50 knowledge systems up and running, and Schorr expects that number to double each year for the next few years...
...paradoxes about Superman is that while he is a hero of nostalgia, the constant changes in his character keep destroying the qualities that make him an object of nostalgia. "For one bright, brief moment, we had a hero right there, and then we lost him, dammit," laments one disillusioned enthusiast, Marshall Fishwick, who teaches communications at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. "You have to look back to the '30s for the real thing. There are too many M.B.A.s now and not enough Supermans...
Kaplan was a computer enthusiast at his highschool, the Cranbrook School, friends said...
...wife Raisa depart next Thursday. Gorbachev's image in the West as a humane reformer has been somewhat dimmed by the November sacking of one of his chief lieutenants, Moscow Communist Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, after a public disgrace reminiscent of the Stalin era. Since Yeltsin was an enthusiast for perestroika (restructuring of the Soviet economy), his peremptory dismissal has been interpreted as a signal that Old Guard bureaucrats are reining in the pace of Gorbachev's domestic reforms...
...problem: noisy upstairs neighbors. At first he would just stew, drink some beer and angrily throw chairs across his apartment living room. Then the burly, 26-year-old karate enthusiast bought an M-16 rifle and vowed "to fire a few rounds into the ceiling." Fortunately his father got wind of the scheme and put Tom (not his real name) in a psychiatric hospital. There, doctors learned that alcohol triggered his violent episodes. Tom is schizophrenic, and a single beer is enough to send him over the edge...