Word: ardor
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...annual regulatory budget or calendar that would set out, in time for opposition to be heard, the costs and benefits as well as a timetable for new rules. Either idea would focus attention on the climbing cost of regulation and go a long way toward dampening Congressmen's ardor for enacting new laws for the agencies to enforce...
...persona as glutton serves as the vehicle for much of the humor in Alice, Let's Eat. In this rambling, anecdotal frolic, Trillin regales us with stories of domestic spats that have arisen in his family due to his gastronomical ardor. When traveling, he constantly gets into arguments with his wife, Alice, about whether to see the sights or eat. Trillin can't understand Alice's "strange fixation on having only three meals...
Grandier (Nicholas Pennell) is the sexiest of priests and the soul of romantic ardor, whether consoling widows or initiating virgins. He is also witty, proud and urbanely condescending, almost courting enemies low and high. The highest, Cardinal Richelieu, has him brought to trial, at which he is condemned and burned at the stake...
...maximum $100 fine. Bookstores soon reported a brisk trade in manuals like The Complete Guide to Growing Marijuana. Cultivation still remains a crime punishable by a maximum ten years in jail and a $2,500 fine, but the more tolerant law on possession seemed to wilt the ardor of anti-dope investigators. "The police just don't care as much since the state decriminalized possession of less than an ounce," says one grower. Soon after the legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with...
...formulas, too oblivious of ends in their concentration on means. Says Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated against women...