Word: fervent
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Judicial elections have sometimes seemed like an antidote to the practice of dispensing judgeships as trophies of political patronage. But the fervent campaign against Bird points up a conundrum. While it is sensible to be able to recall judges for corruption or incompetence, is it desirable for them to have to worry about voters when they make their legal judgments? Courts were never intended to reflect the popular will in the manner of legislatures. In judicial elections, says Berkeley Law Professor Franklin Zimring, "you walk the tightrope between democratic accountability and popular passion. Everybody agrees that accountability is fine...
...summers speeding around a Michigan lake in the wooden craft. Nowadays he keeps several old runabouts at the same lake so he can take his family on rides and picnics. Says he: "It's a trip into the days when our cares were a little bit different." The most fervent of all collectors is probably Alan Furth, former vice chairman of the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Railroad, who has acquired 61 boats. Over the years he has sold only...
...through the skillful negotiating tactics of Mondale's point man on the issue, Robert Beckel, the Jackson factor was effectively neutralized. The result was that Mondale got little in the way of fervent support from Jackson and his followers, but more importantly in the eyes of the Mondale campaign, he got little in the way of outright opposition. Talk of forming a third party ended up being just that...
...1970s, the archetypal gardener was over 50 and had time and money to spare: a smug matron with impeccable calceolarias, an eccentric rosarian, a spinster growing herbs. But now, says the National Gardening Association, 78% of America's households garden, and all the recent surveys suggest that the most fervent converts are between 30 and 49 and still evenly divided between men and women. Those who once bought geraniums and parched them in college dorm rooms have discovered that they can even garden competitively...
...President has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Gorbachev's efforts at glasnost and perestroika. He has met with the Soviet premier four times in the last two years and hammered out a verifiable arms control accord which sailed through the Senate with relative ease. The once-fervent anti-communist even scolded hawks and former bedfellows like Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) for their stubborn resistance to any semblance of an arms control treaty. This shows just how far Reagan has come from his we-can't-negotiate-with-communists crusades of a few years...