Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most interested me was the idea that we could beat the Japanese. That's why I came here," says James Archibald, 34, a line worker in body fabrication, who pulled up stakes in Alabama to take his chances at Saturn. Archibald and his fellow workers share an almost religious zeal for their mission and habitually refer to traditional GM methods as "Old World," as if they were talking about the Middle Ages...
...economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher prices for grain procurement would lead to an inflation spiral. Yeltsin phrased that concern more colorfully not long ago. Trying to reconcile Kremlin caution with the market zeal of the republics, he said, is like "mating a hedgehog with a snake...
Most interventionists cheered Luce's appeal. But even some of them were disturbed by the missionary's son's missionary zeal. The Nation called Luce's program magnanimous but also smug and self-righteous. The Literary Magazine at his alma mater, Yale, called it "jingoistic jargon." Luce's favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, later wrote that the very title implied an "egoistic corruption...
...their zeal to protect a Saudi prince encamped at the Charles Hotel, however, Harvard and Cambridge police seem to have forgotten this fundamental distinction. On two occasions this weekend, the police have stood by and watched while the prince's aides physically assaulted Crimson reporters who were attempting to photograph them in a public place, according to the two reporters involved. On another occasion, they ignored a threat made to a reporter's life--again, according to the reporter. Instead of responding to the situation, our reporter said the officers found it more important to escort the Saudi Arabian...
...most conservative groups in Soviet society, the armed forces would seem to be an obvious target for Gorbachev's reforming zeal. But with so much pressure building inside the military for change, sheer momentum may bring about the kind of changes Gorbachev wants, without the President's having to lift a finger...