Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attractive, energetic and convivially winning youngsters bring the Jesus revolution to the New York theater. There is a sweet gravity behind all the funmaking; and while some may find the occasion irreverent, others will feel that the early followers of Christ must have shared some of this springtime zeal and ebullience...
German workers have a well-earned reputation for zeal and discipline, but even they hate the time clock. Recognizing that, a growing number of employers, including the national airline Lufthansa, are giving some of their employees freedom to punch in, within broad limits, any time they choose in the morning and punch out when they please in the afternoon, as long as they continue to put in a required number of hours each month...
Last May, Ellsberg appeared at a Washington antiwar rally. He berated a group of demonstrators for their lack of zeal and promptly took charge. "I tried to get arrested," he explained later, "but I guess I didn't look young enough." Boston police had no such qualms. One officer clubbed Ellsberg at a Mayday protest at Government Center. Bellicose or pacific, Ellsberg sought the center of the action...
Term-Paper Material. After being questioned by the students for one to three hours each, the bankers were nearly unanimous in giving them high marks for intelligence and zeal. But most doubted that anyone in the Nader group knew enough about banking to make valid judgments on the more complex issues. Says Thomas C. Theobald, a senior vice president: "It was like two college students looking for term-paper material." He was surprised that the interviewers overlooked several obviously controversial topics, including Citibank-managed investments in South Africa and in companies that are polluters...
Growing Concentration. Washington's trustbusters have filed few major cases lately, but Richard McLaren, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, insists that there has been no slackening of zeal. The Administration's prime concern is controlling "merger mania," he explains, and recently there just have not been any big mergers to attack. Attorney General John Mitchell discouraged many corporate giants from contemplating merger by emphasizing in a 1969 speech that the Government would move to bar most acquisitions by the nation's 200 largest companies...