Word: fervent
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...coup - he won't be greeted as a national hero. Neither president-elect Ricardo Lagos nor outgoing President Eduardo Frei will be at the airport, and the general is expected to be welcomed by a small delegation of military officers, a marching band, a few thousand of his most fervent supporters and a packed media gallery...
...event's keynote speaker, former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), who is also director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was especially fervent in his call for Republicans to forget their differences in order to take back the White House...
...addition, both candidates inspire fervent devotion or violent distaste - a factor that is likely to spill into their campaigning. "I think they're right on the edges of making their attacks personal," says Professor Lee Miringoff, Director of the Marist College Center for Public Opinion, "and they haven't even started yet. In a negative campaign, the best thing each of them has going for their campaign is their opponent...
...actress, has gone mainstream. Sporting her new post-plastic surgery nose and a heart of gold, Love has come a long way from ripped baby-doll dresses and smeared mascara, baby. But in the process of her transformation from druggie iconoclast to Hollywood hipster, has she betrayed her most fervent fans, young women...
Here in Coffeyville is another piece of the proof that Bezos' early and fervent belief in the Internet--that it would rock retailing, that it would change the way we live--stands as one of the more prescient assumptions ever made by a businessperson. "We're trying to build something lasting," Bezos says, looking at this 850,000-sq.-ft. monument to free trade. The warehouse is stocked with books, CDs, TVs, stereos, video games, software, toys. And yet only 10% of the area is being used. The rest is stretch space, here for the ongoing e-commerce revolution...