Word: zeal
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...Vilnius in January, killing 15 unarmed civilian demonstrators, OMON has been waging a campaign of intimidation against the democratically elected leadership of the republic. The same is true in neighboring Latvia, where Black Berets raided the republic's interior ministry in Riga, leaving five people dead. In their zeal to enforce the Soviet constitution and the presidential decrees of Mikhail Gorbachev, OMON forces have subsequently carried out a series of surprise attacks, seizing buildings, ransacking customs posts and, on several occasions, shooting at people who got in their...
...number of legal experts, the prosecutors' zeal in pursuing the case has raised troubling questions about America's justice system. Judge Hoeveler has said he is "deeply concerned about the image that this case seems to be acquiring, that the defendant is not going to be able to get a fair trial." Two issues in particular have prompted delays in the proceedings: Noriega's inability to pay lawyers because his bank accounts were frozen, and the taping of his attorney-client phone calls from prison...
...gone too far. For others, whose political cause is being advanced either intentionally or inadvertently, the deplorable can suddenly seem delightful. But the real question is not just who benefits from a media decision. Rather, it is whether the media behave thoughtfully and ethically. If news organizations, in the zeal to keep up with competitors, compromise their standards and let themselves be manipulated, they imperil their credibility and integrity -- and ultimately everybody loses...
Both these types, the one overactive and the other overpassive, are fashioning some odd new malformations of American character. The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms. In Freudian terms, the busybodies might be the superego of the American personality, the overbearing wardens. The crybabies are the messy id, all blubbering need and a virtually infantile irresponsibility. Hard pressed in between is the ego that is supposed to be healthy, tolerant and intelligent. It all adds up to what the Economist...
...fact, when it comes to promoting TIME, few of us can match Cleary's zeal. "It might sound corny, but working for TIME was always on my wish list," she says. Nevertheless, she began her career in a roundabout way. A Phi Beta Kappa at Connecticut College, she graduated in 1975 and spent a year in Japan as a Fulbright fellow, then worked at the Bank of Toyko as a liaison and operations manager. In 1978 she got her wish, when she was hired as an assistant marketing manager, preparing material for sales presentations, at TIME in New York City...