Word: zeal
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...Adnan refers to are his fellow supporters of Hamas. Of all the organizations eager to kill the rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh...
...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...
President Bill Clinton, embattled on so many political fronts these days, made sure to capitalize on the zeal of the Pope's flock and the accompanying media attention. He welcomed the Pontiff at the airport and immediately rated John Paul's initial remarks "a great speech." Never mind that the Pope urged America to stop abortions as he stood alongside the pro-choice President. "All the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect the human person," declared John Paul. Following their 45-minute meeting...
Nevertheless, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human-rights and research organization with headquarters in Los Angeles, vowed to carry on with even more zeal. The center pointed to valuable new investigative avenues afforded them by the collapse of the Soviet regime, which has opened up what one U.S. Justice Department official called "an embarrassment of investigative riches," and by the unification of Germany, where prosecutors can now avail themselves of literally miles of formerly closed East German secret police archives...
...Cosby is driven by his civil rights zeal. If an ambition to be America's most prominent black big shot is zeal for civil rights, then sure. But Cosby's moralist impulses are often a crank's misguided preachiness. In 1988 he joined the race-baiting Tawana Brawley scam. His NBC, according to associates, would have no place for a bad-attitude show such as The Simpsons...