Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zeal for institutional reform, two major issues remain unaddressed--access to courts and the correct assignation of blame. In an increasingly mobile post-industrial society, there is a ubiquity of harm. The safety nets traditionally provided by family and neighborhood have been diminished to a substantial degree. The sole means of redressing grievances and for establishing a proper standard of care lies with the courts...
...leading suppliers by reopening existing contracts and dispatching his teams of subordinates through supplier factories to preach productivity in one-week workshops. Lopez says he has already transformed more than 100 of GM's 2,500 suppliers, boosting their productivity an average 63%. He approaches his job with messianic zeal. "I like my wife," he proclaims, "but I love GM. We must love our company if we are going to pull it up. Our mother needs our help...
...doldrums of economic necessities (at the occasional cost of an eyeball). Yet if reasons for every act have to be given, or at least deciphered, no one can have such flushes of energy. Life becomes a set of formulae for the individual to choose amongst and pursue with unquestioning zeal...
...risk is a campaign that revolves around gamesmanship rather than substance. Right after Labor Day, Clinton stepped in to tone down the hyperactivity of the campaign's war room, with its zeal to respond instantly to every G.O.P. charge. The constant counterpunching, Clinton believed, was overshadowing his larger message. Within the campaign, the power of the war room and its generals -- communications director George Stephanopoulos and top strategist James Carville -- has been a source of envy. "It has taken George and Carville months to realize that they have to trust Bill Clinton's instincts," says a well-placed campaign official...
...adopted five or more children. Barbara Tremitiere, a consultant on child-welfare issues (and the mother of 15 children, 12 of them adopted), knows of several families that have taken in more than 30 kids. Rutgers University psychology professor David Brodzinsky observes in these parents "a tendency toward missionary zeal -- a reaching out, in a spiritual or religious sense, to those more needy." Many of these parents are children of the '60s who adopted Asian kids instead of the most wanted Gerber babies. "They were committed to causes," says Tremitiere. "And this is a very great cause...