Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While plainly outraged by the conduct of the cigarette makers, Kluger spreads the blame around. Lawmakers, cozy with tobacco interests, are held responsible for the government's failure to regulate a clearly dangerous product. The antismoking lobby, in its zeal to get its message across, is portrayed as stooping to hasty or manipulative presentation of scientific data. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association comes across as shockingly slow to denounce smoking. To end the present standoff, in which tobacco companies are battling huge lawsuits, Kluger proposes a compromise in which the industry submits to fda regulation of cigarettes in return...
...course not. The obvious reason is that doctors there were relieved of the constraint of the law. The absolute ethical norm established since the time of Hippocrates--that doctors must not kill--was removed in the name of compassion, and the inevitable happened. Good, ordinary doctors, in their zeal to be ever more compassionate in terminating useless and suffering life, began killing people who did not even ask for it. Once given power heretofore reserved to God, some exceeded their narrow mandate and acted like God. Surprise...
...Hill's zeal to dissolve the council may seem surprising, considering he's never served on the body and says he hasn't attended a meeting in years...
With missionary zeal, Galatis continued to forward allegations to the NRC. Yet four months passed before Galatis finally heard from Donald Driskill, an agent with the NRC's Office of Investigations (the second watchdog unit inside the NRC, this one tracks wrongdoing by utilities). Galatis felt that Driskill was too relaxed about the case. Driskill talked to Northeast about Galatis' charges--a breach of confidentiality that the NRC calls "inadvertent." When Hadley complained to him about Northeast's alleged harassment of Galatis, Driskill suggested he talk to Northeast's lawyer: "He's a really nice...
Dole's reputation as a compromiser has made it easier for Gramm to form a coalition out of a disparate array of conservatives, including antiabortionists, gun owners, antipornography crusaders, tax protesters, working women, stay-at-home moms, even some fathers'-rights activists. At every stop, Gramm emphasizes his zeal to balance the budget, cut taxes on families, end welfare benefits to people with children born out of wedlock and appoint judges who "will interpret not reinvent the Constitution." His flat-tax proposal, which retains the charitable-contribution deduction, is carefully designed to attract check-writing churchgoers...