Word: fervors
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Isaacson says her biggest fear is that theanti-incumbent fervor that characterized theprimaries will sweep liberal legislators out oftheir House and Senate seats...
...storm of anti-tax fervor swept through Massachusetts, culminating in the passage of Proposition 2 1/2, which placed a cap on the amount of property taxes local governments could levy. Since that time, Massachusetts cities and towns have had to rely on a steady flow of of state aid to finance the most basic municipal services--including schools, hospitals, police and fire protection. Two summers ago, in a sweeping series of budget cuts, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis made it abundantly clear that local officials can no longer count on that...
...year-old spectacled professor is quickto explain his plan with an air of confidence anda slight hint of self-defense. He speaks of hisown solutions with fervor and an enthusiasm seldomassociated with economists...
Ever provocative, with a gift for the grating phrase, the newspaper and TV analyst is himself attacked after charging that Israel and American Jews are fueling U.S. fervor for a Middle East...
...embracing modernity, the government has assiduously eschewed its usual counterpart, Westernization. The House of Saud has clung tenaciously to Wahhabism, the puritanical strain of Sunni Islam that was the driving force of Abdul Aziz's victorious Ikhwan (brethren) movement. The royal family, as well as most Saudis, believe Wahhabi fervor unifies the kingdom's diverse tribes. Though King Fahd is known not to relish meeting his subjects, he devotes an entire day each week, Monday, to conferring with the ulama, the country's religious scholars...