Word: ardente
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...have a "significant other," it would be hard to conceive of a more painful occasion. You have to write sappy cards to your beloved. And turning to your friends at Hallmark is not acceptable--your words must be heartfelt and sincere. You have to fill the day with ardent professions of your love, all in goo-goo talk, of course. You have to go out to some ridiculously expensive dinner, attend some ridiculously expensive show, or take some trip to a motel with a heart-shaped tub and mirrors on the ceiling...
...step toward redefining the terms of debate, House Speaker Tom Foley pointed out last week that Clinton had not used the term "universal coverage" but had instead said "guaranteed coverage for every American." The wink was not lost on liberals -- who already felt abused by the White House's ardent courtship of moderates -- Governors and the Business Roundtable. "They're even waffling on universal coverage," said the top aide to a Midwestern Senator. "The message is that if you fight hard for progressive principles, the White House...
While the President wants abortion covered in his health-care reform bill, he is also an ardent champion of states' prerogatives. "I've always been ambivalent on the federal-funding issue," Clinton told me in January 1991. "All Roe v. Wade said is that the government shall not take a position on abortion. ((The Supreme Court)) guaranteed the right to have one but didn't get into money matters. Many people view abortion as murder, and even many who don't are against their tax dollars' being used to finance it, regardless of the circumstances. The fact is, there...
Among the most ardent are thousands of Americans, many of whom have found solace for the dislocation that plagued them in the U.S. in the uncompromising faith of the settler movement. Virtually all the hard-liners consider the September agreement to be the first step toward a de facto dismantling of the 144 Jewish towns built in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1967 Six-Day War. And nearly all of them are armed to the teeth: an estimated 30,000 own rifles and handguns, and several settlements boast depots stocked with mines and hand grenades...
...government has been very effective at crushing opposition. The most ardent anti-Castro groups are in exile. Those remaining have been reduced to small, timid groups, and human-rights organizations report that the number of arrests of even moderate dissidents has risen sharply. Very few people, says Felix de la Uz, "are willing to do something to make the system fall...