Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinary politician who had been accused of secretly developing nuclear weapons might simply issue a fervent denial or a terse "no comment." But there is nothing ordinary about Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. One week after his agents were caught trying to smuggle electrical devices used in nuclear weapons from Britain to Iraq, Saddam issued an angry disclaimer that served only to provoke greater international unease and outrage. "We do not need an atomic bomb," Saddam said. "We have the dual chemical. Whoever threatens us with the atomic bomb, we will annihilate him with the dual chemical." Recalling Israel...
...Kemp, a fervent intellectual, has dubbed his ideology "progressive conservatism," Beware, this is no oxymoron. Kemp wants to tackle traditionally Democratic issues by applying free-market principles and the human spirit of enterprise...
...leaders of Mongolia's Communist Party have been slow to put their faith in shinechiel (renewal). But once convinced, they have proved fervent converts. Last week the party that has ruled the remote republic for 66 years abolished its monopoly on power, promised multiparty elections by year's end and replaced the entire five-member Politburo with a younger, more progressive slate. Said Foreign Ministry spokesman Tepbishiin Chimeddorj: "This is the beginning of real change...