Word: zeal
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Instinct," in its human applications, can be a fighting word. Prefaced with "maternal," it's often deployed as a warm-up for the old "barefoot and pregnant" prescription for feminine fulfillment. In fact, if motherhood is a mindlessly instinct-driven occupation, why bother with feet at all? In their zeal to reduce women to reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have...
...have sinned in the zeal of youth...
...embodies the zeal of the sport's athletes, a quality that has struck a chord with both jaded fans and high-profile trainers. Former heavyweight champion Greg Page says women are more fun to watch and more rewarding to coach because "they work harder." Hannah Fox, a married mother of one and a former junior-welterweight champion, owns two Subway restaurants in Las Vegas and trains with Page. She rises at 5 a.m., runs four miles, goes to the gym for strength training, manages the eateries from 10 to 3, spars in the afternoon, then goes home and makes dinner...
...tank from a moving vehicle. He once brought his patrol car to a screeching halt--to the shock of his passengers--and began sniffing the air like a bloodhound. Before long he found and ticketed an illegal septic bypass. No one is safe from Gatto's by-the-book zeal. In 1990, after a late-night dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend of his father's, he followed the odor of sewage into a back alley where he spotted a septic tank overflowing into a storm drain leading to a reservoir. Gatto arrested the family friend, who paid...
...than the stock market. It's predicated on the notion that the greater good for all will come from many individuals who have the opportunity to act on their immediate self-interest. Unfortunately, when seas get rough, there is nothing to stop investors from sinking the lifeboats in their zeal to abandon ship. Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, which explores the perils of the present market, once devised a survey to probe whether investors felt any responsibility to the overall system. When asked whether they might reduce selling in a crash out of a sense of social responsibility, only...