Word: zeal
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...back-story has been the same for a long while. Stock market flat. Corporate earnings depressing. Capital spending by businesses - the collapse of which started this slowdown, and the resurgence of which must occur to finally end it - still in deep hibernation. Alan Greenspan slashing rates with the zeal of a self-preservationist, a half-point at a time, on five straight occasions. (Twice between meetings...
...instant last week, it appeared that Manila had trapped the group?offering the prospect of ridding the country for good of this band of seafaring bandits who work with the zeal of holy warriors. On June 3, more than 5,000 soldiers had the outlaws cornered in a hospital at Lamitan, a town on Basilan island, about 900 km south of Manila. All the army had to do was tighten the siege and the guerrillas would have been forced to surrender the hostages they had plucked from an island resort a few days before. But commanders dropped the ball...
...Russian-backed administration last year, Kremlin officials predicted he would split the enemy, enticing top commanders to surrender or rally to the Russians. He has made no headway with the separatists, but has alienated the old guard of pro-Russian Chechens. The one area where Kadyrov has shown any zeal is private business, the Kremlin-backed website strana.ru noted in a biting attack on him. Last week, in a further sign of Moscow's unhappiness with Kadyrov, one of his deputies was arrested for corruption. Probably the only reason he is still in office is that the Kremlin cannot agree...
...years of Ronald Reagan. Bush the Younger prefers to solidify support among the conservatives who deserted his father - and win that second term. That concern has been most evident on domestic issues, but it also means making businesses happy by abandoning the effort to reduce greenhouse gases and showing zeal on missile defense, a central tenet of the Reagan catechism...
...progressively larger and quieter than the last, the whole process subtly recalling of the huge body of history and myth surrounding this man (the co-creator of the first PC; the owner of the infamous reality distortion field that infects all bystanders in a 100ft. radius with his evangelical zeal; the notoriously arrogant hard-ass as played by Noah Wylie in the TNT special "Pirates of Silicon Valley...