Word: zeal
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...grossly confuse aggressive-looking behavior, which is playful and appears to please "one couple in three," with genuinely hostile routines that are compulsive or vicious. That confusion could be dangerous for many people today whose zeal for experimentation exceeds their common sense...
...voluble remonstrances on the issue (though he has been careful not to refer to the referendums themselves) have incited a wave of criticism from pro-choice advocates. Bettino Craxi, head of the Italian Socialist Party, charges that John Paul is leading a "revival of intolerance, improper interference and excessive zeal on the part of the Roman Catholic Church over the abortion issue...
...Papal zeal has also created acute embarrassment among the Catholic politicians in Italy's fragile ruling coalition, led by the Christian Democrats. They had encouraged a low key, nondivisive approach to the issue in the hope of diminishing the political fallout. But the Pope's supporters maintain that it would be unthinkable for John Paul not to speak his mind on abortion in a country that is 95% Roman Catholic. Asks Giulio Andreotti, a sympathetic Christian Democrat and former Prime Minister: "How can one ask the Pope to be silent when one of the most delicate points...
...same ambiguity has hampered Giscard at home. He began his mandate with a bold series of reforms. Within 26 months he lowered the French minimum voting age from 21 to 18, liberalized divorce laws and legalized abortion. Then his zeal flagged. Giscard has not changed a tax system that he once denounced as favoring the rich. Nor has he reformed the notoriously centralized French government. A close confidant of the President explains that "Giscard simply has become more realistic about the speed with which change can take place...
...fact, at the federal level, the N.R.A. has five full-time lobbyists, a group headed by Neal Knox, a sharp-penned columnist for various gun magazines. They are well-informed, savvy professionals, but occasionally their zeal exasperates, rather than impresses, even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would...