Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tobacco. In the tobacco companies, Congress has found a group that is even more demonized than itself. In its zeal to capitalize on this unusual advantage, our elected representatives have proposed a harsher version of the deal struck last summer between the companies and numerous states to reduce teenage smoking. In response, the tobacco bosses have threatened to pull out of the negotiations with Congress and plead their case before the public. The O. J.-like contortions needed to convince us that these merchants of death are deserving of our sympathy will be so absurd that it'll be hard...
...director William Webster would review the practices of the IRS?s criminal investigative division. Van Voorst believes that while the agency badly needs reforming, ?the IRS is probably as bad as any other government agency, but no worse.? That, of course, is meager consolation for the victims of IRS zeal -- and they?re the ones who?ll have the mike in the days to come...
...come to Christ. Can you imagine 100, or 300, come to Christ in your school? We want to see our campuses come to Christ." Watchdog organizations like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State report cases in which such zeal has approached harassment of students and teachers, student prayer leaders have seemed mere puppets for adult evangelists, and activists have tried to establish prayer clubs in elementary schools, where the description "student-run" seems disingenuous...
Remember Whitewater? Hacking through that thorny bramble of failed land deals and shady bank loans was supposed to be Ken Starr's big mission. But since January, it has often seemed that the independent counsel, in his zeal to prove the President tried to cover up extramarital sex, had forgotten all about Arkansas. Now Starr appears ready to close up shop in Little Rock. And there's no sign that his effort--which will have consumed four years and as much as $50 million when all is said and done--will result in any charges being filed against Bill...
...Army no matter which way the verdicts went in the sexual-misconduct case against former Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, once the service's highest-ranking enlisted man and one of its most prominent African Americans. But the Army, having gone ahead and prosecuted its case with zeal after some initial skittishness in the face of McKinney's adamant denials and his countercharges of racial scapegoating, could scarcely have done worse. The military jury came back with a verdict of not guilty on 18 of 19 counts and found McKinney guilty on only one charge, of obstructing justice...