Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor more crusading zeal, while still others want to curtail overseas involvement...
...weeks. In April 1986, a month after the strike began, a terrorist bomb exploded in mid-air on a flight bound for Athens, killing four passengers and wounding nine others. TWA's overseas business never recovered. Neither did its relationship with labor. Icahn's zeal to cut costs has also led to confrontations with TWA's mechanics and pilots...
...Florio. Among the latest to fall was a Florio centerpiece: the nation's toughest restrictions on military-style assault weapons. By margins that may be veto-proof, the lawmakers lifted the ban on the sale and possession of dozens of dangerous rapid-fire guns -- though not, even in their zeal, on the notorious Uzis...
...policy wonk's love of the intricacies of complex issues; both boast blue-ribbon educational pedigrees and are not ashamed to show it; both are Southern Baptists who married strong, assertive blond women; and both, having achieved political success early in life, have never made a secret of their zeal for higher office. In fact, Clinton almost jumped into the 1988 presidential race to vie with Gore for Southern support...
...stuffy little domestic British world crashes a plane containing two aviators, Bunny's old college chum Joey Percival (Royal E. Miller) and a Polish acrobat named Lina Szczepanowska (played with panache by Candy Buckley). Hypatia seizes on Joey as her deus ex machina, and pursues him with all the zeal of a liberated woman...