Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litter was in the backyard of a dilapidated ten-room house that three college students rent from the authority for $75 a month. The sanitation crew assigned to the rubbish removal somehow got their instructions mixed up and, in a burst of zeal, cleaned out the inside of the house instead of the grounds. When the students returned last week after the Christmas holidays, they discovered the loss of all their furniture, an expensive camera, three stereo sets, records, books, a guitar, a tape recorder, term papers, research notes and pages of unpublished poetry. What remained untouched was the offending...
...Exposure Debate. Legislators are looking into nuclear safety with new zeal. The Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy has been holding full-scale hearings on the subject. New York Representative Lester L. Wolff believes that the entire nuclear-power industry should be put into "mothballs for the next ten years until the environmental effects of the mammoth plants now nearing completion have been reliably assessed...
...most of their money into land or bank accounts. To avoid the risk of picking stocks for investment, he ingeniously created the Fund of Funds, a mutual fund that buys the shares of other funds. Soon Cornfeld was hiring salesmen in droves and inspiring them with his own zeal through generous stock options and commissions that grow larger as their sales volume increases. I.O.S. salesmen draw no salary and pay their own expenses: many fail and quit, but the survivors often grow wealthy. Many of Cornfeld's early associates have retired in their thirties as millionaires. I.O.S...