Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kind of Evil,'' as you did in your table of contents. Previous press reports attest to the blood-drenched credentials of world religions. Disputes in Iraq, Iran, India, Israel, Croatia and Northern Ireland involving Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Protestants and Catholics are examples of deeply rooted religious fervor. From the Catholic Inquisition to abortion-clinic-doctor killings, history shows again and again where the real lack of "peace and security'' originates...
...Fried approached the whole question of rent control with what can only be described as ideological fervor," said Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, one of the groups opposing Fried. "This was someone who had an agenda, which essentially meant wiping out tenant protections, and he was essentially hell-bent on doing...
Beyond its role as a media feeding ground, the Simpson case will prove to have less of a legacy than current fervor might indicate, Ogletree said...
...somewhere in the depths of the system is an account bearing each person's name and number, containing the exact amount of taxes paid over a lifetime, in cash or readily cashable securities, to be paid back penny for penny on retirement. This idea lends a note of moral fervor-almost fanaticism-to the demands that benefit formulas never be touched...
...religious right's anti-Clinton fervor is matched only by their zeal for the Republican Party. Again, they seem to prefer lip-service to substance--they endorse school prayer instead of school lunches, they sermonize about family values while their arch-enemy, Clinton, promotes the Family Medical Leave...