Word: zeal
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...director's replacement was no improvement. Although she promised a zeal for children, she also allegedly had a zeal to spend money. Even as children in the agency's care couldn't get dental exams and foster parents couldn't get first-aid training, Grace Home was spending $250,000 in foster-care funds to defend a sexual-harassment suit and gave an additional $130,000 to a board member. The books listed $6,725 in Toys "R" Us gift certificates with no receipt. The new director gave herself nearly $10,000 for a retroactive pay raise, car payments...
...This increasing dependence on the zeal of the oppo teams has paid far richer dividends for Bush than for Gore. And for two reasons: First, the Bush/RNC team has been far more assiduous and painstaking in its work. And second, the fruits of its labors have been of considerably more value to its overall strategy...
...liberties have always occupied a sacred place in our nation's history. At the same time, they have also been vulnerable to the claims of national security. The recent case of Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is an example of the terrible consequences of the government's zeal for security gone awry...
CULTURE WARS In the 1980s he and Tipper were criticized by Hollywood--a big source of party money--for their fight against obscene lyrics. In 1987 the couple expressed "regret" about their crusade, promising that their zeal would never amount to censorship...
...most certainly about the dedication. While all Olympians own a catalog of long training hours and sore muscles, rowers are renowned even among top jocks for the zeal with which they train. Few athletes have a better level of conditioning, the result of the 30 or more hours rowers spend training each week...