Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OBJECT OF HIS FAITH USED TO BE RICHARD NIXon. But prison, where he was sent for his role in the Watergate scandal, triggered a religious conversion in former White House aide Charles Colson. "Born again," Colson transformed his zeal for Republican politics (he once said he would walk over his own grandmother for Nixon) into a devotion to Jesus. He founded the Prison Fellowship, an organization designed to change the lives of convicts through a combination of practical assistance and relentless evangelism. Colson's two decades of commitment have worn down most of the skeptics who questioned the sincerity...
...over Justice's role in the investigation of money and arms transfers to Iraq. Beyond that, the Attorney General will be called upon to rein in many of the country's 94 U.S. Attorneys, whose offices have in recent years been repeatedly charged with bending legal guidelines in the zeal to advance careers with heavy conviction rates...
...true that a nominee's record and background often give good indications of job performance. But the fascination with public figures goes deeper than that. There's something appealing about finding out the intimate details about celebrities--you never know when dirt might appear. It was with a certain zeal that millions of Americans called their senators to complain about Zoe Baird's yuppie hubris. And it was with a certain satisfaction that those same Americans watched Baird decline her nomination...
...must win their tussle with the P.L.O., and it has become almost an even fight. Leaders in both Palestinian camps estimate that roughly 40% to 45% of the 1.8 million Arabs in the territories are Hamas supporters. The name Hamas, an acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," first appeared on political leaflets in 1987, but the organization was not formed until February 1988, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh, in which Hamas would play an increasingly important role...
...divisions that surfaced in the '60s. Inheriting a society profoundly riven by color and class, he knows that liberalism lost its political capital when it became perceived as something that taxed the majority to advance "special" -- which is to say, "minority" -- interests. Through an excess of gallantry and zeal, liberalism itself created the alienated "them" that deeded the Republicans the White House...