Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, ethics committees have often been self-protective rather than self-policing, spending much of their time battling the "unauthorized practice of law" by such laymen as real estate brokers and estate planners. The zeal to act against fellow lawyers was mostly limited to those who were political or social mavericks. When former Communist Maurice Braverman was convicted of advocating the violent overthrow of the Government, he was swiftly tossed out of the legal club. Last month, more than 20 years later, his reinstatement was recommended by a three-judge panel in Maryland, which concluded that his original conviction...
...eavesdropping on the Democrats, the Justice Department prepared to handle the case routinely. Henry Petersen, head of the department's criminal division, assigned a team of bright but junior prosecutors, including Earl J. Silbert, Seymour Glanzer and Donald Campbell, to the task. At Petersen's direction, they showed little zeal for tracing the source of the funds used by the men arrested at the Watergate or determining who had authorized the politically motivated crime...
...Rabbi David Small is back with his congregation in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. A colleague who is also going to Israel recommends Small as his replacement teacher of a course in Jewish philosophy at a nearby college. He begins his academic side career with customary zeal. When a bomb goes off in the dean's office, apparently killing a faculty member, the police first arrest student radicals, then a dissident Jewish professor. Using his Talmudic method of looking at a problem from every conceivable angle, Rabbi Small finds a different murderer with a surefire motive...
...their speeches during the initial two-day meeting, the hostile neighbors for the most part swallowed their bitterness and demonstrated an equal zeal for Kissinger's call to "overcome old myths with new hope." One reason for the rhetorical moderation was that there was a dreadful prospect staring at the conferees. If they failed to achieve peace, as Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy pointed out, "the chances of repeating such a historical gathering will be very remote indeed...
...that as much as 20% of all the energy used by industry could be saved rapidly by more economical use, with little or no loss of productivity. Now, spurred by the scarcity and rising cost of fuel, a growing number of companies are turning to conserving power with the zeal that they once devoted to cutting inventory. They are finding the savings surprisingly easy...