Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well aware, however, that her zeal to help was always to be abused. With Karl she felt like "a tool in his hand, some kind of working machine." But it was not much better on the farm. At Haugsetvolden she was rarely treated as more than a kept-laborer...
...been notably proficient over the past year at foreseeing the timing and severity of the recession. Nor has President Ford, who only six months ago was urging a tax increase, not a tax cut. But, despite some ill-advised provisions, the Congress has moved with unaccustomed speed and zeal to produce a tax package worthy of a trial in the marketplace. By signing the bill, the President has avoided a divisive battle with Congress that might have stirred a hot political debate but would have done little to stimulate an overdue recovery from the nation's worst recession since...
Excessive Zeal. Cuddihy, 53, was raised as a Catholic and teaches sociology at Hunter College in New York City. To offer such theories in an age that regards ethnic determinism with the deepest suspicion clearly takes nerve. Ordeal, however,.is not antiSemitic. At its best it is a provocative revisionist ramble through the received ideas of the past hundred years, which encourages readers to alter their conceptions of the world. Cuddihy's presentation is flawed by excessive zeal. If a Jew utters a word like coarse, he automatically triggers, in Cuddihy's mind, visions of the primal scream...
...William A. Nolen, author of The Making of a Surgeon (1970), is hardly the first member of his profession to debunk faith healing, but he is the first to write open-mindedly about metaphysical medicine. He became so imbued with investigatory zeal that he subjected himself to a "psychic operation." The result of his two years of research is a book that should serve as a warning to any patient who prefers spirits to science...
...fourth of the general population that is 25 or older has had some college training, a 1971 Jewish study found 54% of Jews in that age range had gone to college. By 1985 it is estimated that half of all Jews under 65 will be college graduates. The zeal for education has produced higher earnings. The same study showed that in that year, the median income for Jewish households was $12,630, compared with $10,285 for the rest of the population; 14% of Jewish-American families made $25,000 or more a year, while only 10% were...