Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bishop is attacking the marriage problem with characteristic zeal. Catholicism considers marriage to be "indissoluble"; divorce is not recognized and remarriage while the spouse is alive is forbidden. Yet Arizona Catholics' marriages are breaking up at a rate similar to the general population's. Rausch spent two dreary weeks pondering the rolls of failed marriages at the diocesan tribunal. Says he: "I read how these people had suffered, and decided we had to do a better job." He summoned a task force of 25 priests, nuns and laity to develop a plan. He took the task force...
...problem he is tackling at the moment." Carter's aides, Fallows says in his second article, have fallen prey to the bureaucratic system that they once vowed to reform. He writes: "Run like a bureaucracy, the White House took on the spirit of a bureaucracy, drained of zeal, obsessed with form, full of people attracted [more] by the side-dressings of their work than the work itself...
...works is astonishing; it is a cult of personality without parallel. Kim has been endowed with the attributes of an immortal: he can be in more than one place at the same time, can travel distances at unheard-of speed, and knows all there is to know. In its zeal to create a living legend, North Korea has preserved a bewildering variety of Kim memorabilia: mats he sat on, pencils he used, even an empty jar that had once held kimchi (the potent, spicy relish made from fermented cabbage), which he once "looked into" while visiting a peasant family. Surprisingly...
...between the insurer and the hospital." Califano and some state regulators also are launching a drive to require that a majority of the directors of any Blue Shield plan be laymen. At present, many Blue Shield plans are dominated by doctors, who, to put it delicately, have no great zeal to question fellow physicians' fees...
...from my missionary zeal to suggest Christianity as a cure for Woody Allen's suffering. To put an end to his torment would put an end to his art-and that would...