Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems as the taxpayers. had money troubles of their own. Although a strike by teachers is against the law m New York State, only five of the 630 staff members initially crossed the picket lines. Throughout the seven week of the strike, the teachers showed remark able unity and zeal: just one other decided to go back to work...
...trade might be expected to subside. In fact, tempers seem to be getting worse, not better. Yankee businessmen complain that they are still all but shut out of the Japanese market, and more and more of the American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest...
...discussions. Monsignor Zdizislaw Pesz-kowsky, of the Polish-American seminary in Michigan, who has known Wojtyla for 24 years, says that while the new Pope is interested in the liberals' agenda?divorce, celibacy, women priests and the like?he "stresses that these problems must be dealt with by priestly zeal," not further compromise...
...their disposal vehicles. Anyone who has driven a car knows it is impossible to anticipate a drunk driver, or a bad storm. Those who do not recognize the untimely risks of nuclear power, especially in the light of their dire consequences, have blinded their common sense with zeal...
With the political scientist's zeal for systematizing and defining our political intuitions, Burns modestly attempts to establish a "school of leadership." His purpose is no less than to develop a set of "standards for assessing past, present and potential leaders," and to explain the role of human beings in history. However, given the gargantuan size of his undertaking, the book's failure to meet the high expectations raised in the prologue and Part One does not entirely negate its contribution to our common fund of knowledge on the subject...