Word: ardently
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...then you’re not alone. A long list of luminaries ranging from Nancy Pelosi to President Bush have tried to do something to cut the wasteful spending. Farm subsidies are one of those rare issues on which everyone from the staunch free market advocate to the ardent proponent of social justice can see eye to eye. A cursory reading of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics will reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While they can produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying...
...several strategies," said Linda Davis Kyle, a forty-something writer and ardent Hillary supporter. "While they were doing high fives because they had more people, we stayed cool. Plan one was for everyone to vote for the same person." That would sacrifice any chance at getting one of the alternates, but would ensure a delegate for Hillary. On the Obama side, Jay Carter, 32, a former TV reporter turned real estate company owner, said the hope was that the Clinton ranks would split. The Obama team planned to divide their votes - women voting for a women delegate, men voting...
...nationalism, the country's most potent, and dangerous, political force. In January, the People's Daily previewed this strategy, writing that China suffers "accusations from all over the world, including misunderstandings, sarcasm and very harsh criticism" over the Games. Shortly after Spielberg's withdrawal, Chinese bloggers, among the most ardent nationalists, made the People's Daily sound tame with their fury at the West...
There could be one more explanation for the limited if ardent appeal of Perry's films: they're not very good. He casts some prime scene stealers--Cicely Tyson, Janet Jackson, Angela Bassett, Louis Gossett Jr., Jenifer Lewis, Maya Angelou--but rarely draws their best work from them. Most of the actors could wear tags describing their characters: work-obsessed wife, philandering husband, saucy slut, overweight sweetie, bombastic uncle ... and Madea (a conflation of Mother Dear), the wise, wisecracking granny from Heck...
...even the most ardent skeptic or even atheist—to whom this tolerant regime agnostic to moral or religious questions might first seem appealing—must confront difficulty when this “tolerance” applies to sects not historically seeped in such cultural relativism...