Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learning as the most idealized of students. Kohl also shows the reader the dark side of his experiences as an educator, placing considerable emphasis on the squalid conditions in which his students spent forty hours a week. He lambastes indifferent school directors and educational boards with as much zeal as he supports the creative power of his students. Kohl points out case after case of wasted time and money, antiquated lunch programs leftover from the Roosevelt era, and badly needed text-books that rot away in basements due to simple neglect on the part of educational directors...
...that represents a change from the days when Luce's global agendas infused these pages. The son of a Presbyterian missionary in China, Luce inherited a zeal to spread American values and Christianize the communist world. He was very up front about his approach. In the prospectus that he wrote with Hadden, he noted that "complete neutrality...is probably as undesirable as it is impossible," and he proceeded to lay out a litany of what would be the new magazine's "prejudices...
...life as a judge and a corporate lawyer, and still represents clients like Big Tobacco and General Motors. He was once considered the kind of centrist Republican that Democrats love, until he took over the Whitewater investigation and proceeded to squeeze witnesses and pursue leads with a zeal that troubled even people who lost no love for Bill Clinton...
...alcohol-related deaths, most notably the tragic death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger, these were a result of unsafe party and fraternity environments, rather than underage drinking. Laws governing the purchase of alcohol have been around for quite a long time. Never before has the CPD exhibited such zeal with regard to their enforcement. If the problem of underage drinking had worsened recently, this might be understandable. "Cops in Shops" is a crackdown that is not justified by any real threat to public safety...
...Microsoft certainly operates "with what sometimes seems to be relentless monopolistic zeal." Especially when it sees something it wants, like the World Wide Web. Currently, Microsoft is locked in a death match with browser king Netscape over who will control the enormous (and still mushrooming) Internet browser market. Microsoft, fresh from its Apple coup and with untold billions to throw behind its campaign, is giving away its browser for free, a deal that younger, smaller Netscape can't match. Fair competition, indeed...