Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until his death Mao resisted modernization because it would destroy China's uniqueness, and he fought institutionalization because it banked China's ideological zeal. It has been said that revolutions destroy their makers. The opposite was true of Mao; he was the maker who destroyed one revolutionary wave after another. He fought the implications of his own revolution as fiercely as he did the institutions he had originally overthrown. But he had set a goal beyond human capacity. In his last months, bereft of speech, able to act only a few hours a day, he had passion strong...
...economy. There are signs that the recession will be deeper and longer than was predicted only three months ago. So some economists dispute Volcker's assertion that "what basically is good for the dollar is good for the economy at home." They are fearful that in his zeal to raise interest rates to buttress the buck abroad, he will worsen the Interest rates have been rising through the industrialized world since July, as governments try to curb inflation. But the U.S. has been playing catch-up with European and Japanese rates. At present, U.S. interest levels are no higher...
...affluence of the Irish Catholic middle class between the world wars ensured that the Catholic presence was here to stay. The Cardinal, among others, even began to worry that success would do to the faithful Catholics what it had done to the third generation of Puritans: lead to diminished zeal and cultural identity...
...said so yet, but he is about the only one who has not. And his supporters are fairly screaming it. As far as they are concerned, Senator Edward M. Kennedy has entered the race for the presidency, and they are working for him with that special kind of zeal that has not been seen since the days of his two older brothers. Ideology does not seem to count, as Democrats of all persuasions -and many independents too-are urging on the man who they think could restore leadership to an ineffectual White House. Draft-Kennedy movements are springing up everywhere...
...complicate the unbelievable, she and Starbuck had been Communists in their youth. His zeal has withered with age, but not hers. "After I die," she tells Starbuck, "you look in my left shoe . . . You will find my will in there. I leave the RAMJAC Corporation to its rightful owners, the American people." Starbuck is dazzled by the purity of her motive but convinced that her act will make not one whit of difference to the way people live: "The economy is a thoughtless weather system - and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing...