Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religious right's anti-Clinton fervor is matched only by their zeal for the Republican Party. Again, they seem to prefer lip-service to substance--they endorse school prayer instead of school lunches, they sermonize about family values while their arch-enemy, Clinton, promotes the Family Medical Leave...
Philosopher Paull Karl Feyerabend, a former professor at the University of California at Berkeley, is quoted in Scientific American as saying, "Leading intellectuals with their zeal for objectivity...are criminals, not the liberators of mankind...
...With his zeal for doing the unpopular, Kasich takes much of the political heat off Gingrich. At the same time, however, he risks finding himself the fall guy if things go badly. He conceded as much at a hearing this month when he publicly commiserated with Rivlin, who lost internal battles at the White House over whether the Administration should opt for further deficit reduction. ``I hope you'll be the only one in this city that will lose this fight this year,'' Kasich told Rivlin. ``But you know what? I've got a feeling that there will be some...
...Deng fades from the scene, a fierce debate is beginning, questioning the correctness of his reforms and pondering what steps should come next. The discussion is going on mostly in private because the party's political control and the zeal of the censors are still strong. Chinese intellectuals are extremely cautious about putting their views forward publicly...
...fully one third of his space for an opinionated attack on the consumers of 'porn,' as he chose to term it. Rather than the psychotic perverts he portrays, I suspect most downloaders of Internet pornography are rather like a very mild-mannered friend of mine who recently discussed with zeal the obscene screen-saver she had compiled as a joke for her roommate. I can think of at least seven people I know well, four women and three men, whom I know to have viewed computer pornography for their own entertainment and amusement. They are not, as the article would...