Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bringing that news. Now the tension is reasserting itself." Argued conservative critic Dorothy Rabinowitz last week in a Wall Street Journal article: "The bill, it seems, has come in for the past 20 years," during which time, she claims, the press has gone overboard in post-Watergate prosecutorial zeal...
...economy. For that is how he viewed events -- and his perception rests at the heart of the present crisis. Battered by the war with Iran, $80 billion in debt, he expected gratitude from the likes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for having spared them, as well as himself, the zeal of Khomeini's revolutionaries. He wanted higher oil prices; instead, production in the gulf went up, and his revenues went down. He wanted to lease islands for ports and loading berths on the gulf from Kuwait; no deal. All the while, Kuwait was slant-drilling oil out of a field...
...success of Arab immigrants and their offspring has not protected them in the past, either from hate crimes or from subtler forms of discrimination. In recent days, press accounts have implied a lack of loyalty and patriotic zeal in the wake of war. Arab Americans respond that opinions may be divided -- as they are throughout the American public -- but loyalties are not. "Where else is my loyalty going to be?" asks Kay al-Askari, the northern New Jersey representative of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We've been here 35 years." Brenda Murad, a second-generation Lebanese American, agrees...
...month after failing to manage its $2 billion in obligations. Financial analysts warn that many other debt-ridden businesses could be headed for bankruptcy unless they find a way to lighten their load. None of the methods are easy, but many firms are doing just that. With the same zeal they showed for leveraging up, companies are vigorously deleveraging. Their techniques range from old-fashioned cost cutting to modern tactics like debt-for-equity swaps...
Three years ago, Judith Rickenbacker turned her Chicago town house into a laboratory for capitalist invention, international cooperation and entrepreneurial zeal. She did it by buying a sewing machine...