Word: zeal
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...company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always pushed hard for greater corporate accountability - he is credited with the shake-up of the Swiss banking industry - his successor may not have the same zeal: Zürcher Kantonal-bank, which bought majority voting rights in the stakes, has said already it will adopt a less activist stance than Ebner's. At least Buffett is carrying on the shareholder mission; he is currently insisting that stock options be recognized as costs. The latest U.S. corporation...
...Blur as sotong responses like mine won't dampen Wong's zeal for promoting good English. He dislikes Singlish because he thinks it's crude. "If my son came back from school and told my wife that she was talking cock," he says, "I would slap him." He would have to. Otherwise, how would Cambridge-educated Wong's son learn to jiat gentang...
...math, Greek and Latin. "I was interested in why people behaved the way they did, what makes them fall in love or start wars. I discovered that science provided me with more answers than philosophy did," she explains. Her aim of "meshing science with society" has something of the zeal of the convert. "I'd like to see people attending scientific discussions the way they would go to a concert or the cinema," says Greenfield, who is married to fellow scientist and textbook author Peter Atkins. If anyone can persuade the public to devote their Saturday nights to science...
...Indian graves that had been disturbed. As federal officials have tinkered with the water levels of the Missouri River, long-submerged Indian villages have resurfaced, luring robbers seeking to profit from a black market in bones and artifacts. "We are not archaeological specimens," says Mentz indignantly. Unfortunately his zeal went too far for some tribal officials. Mentz was fired last May. His offense: refusing to disinter hillside graves to make way for a road to the reservation casino...
...Bush's zeal for secrecy was on full display last week--and it irritated the people he now needs to pass his plan. Capitol Hill was left completely out of the loop. Before the speech, the White House kept its plan under wraps as aides fanned out to test elements of the proposal on informal focus groups. At a dinner party thrown by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld early this month, deputy chief of staff Josh Bolten asked guests what they thought about giving Cabinet status to the Homeland Security office. Most of the guests opposed the idea, as they believed...