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...last week, when the votes were counted, the pattern could be clearly seen: in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar, where the sterilization program was pursued with the most zeal but the least preparation, the defection from the Congress Party was the most severe...
...wild movement," Calhoun said. "A flurry of new programs were launched, mostly on zeal and peanut butter. Now things are beginning to settle down once again. We've come to realize that for 'x' number of kids, we do need secured facilities." "But the pendulum isn't going to whip all the way back to training school days," Calhoun adds quickly...
...personal sex fantasy, which he will act out with the Project, a theater group that has been performing in a creaking loft in lower Manhattan. During both their regular shows and the weekly audience-participation night, the Project's five actors and actresses concentrate with missionary zeal on their goal: to purge the demons of the audience's sexual fantasies...
...city blessed with more than its share of good restaurants and bad weather, and less than its share of smut. That latter distinction is largely the work of Hamilton County Prosecutor Simon Leis Jr., 42, who has pursued local sex-shop and massage-parlor operators with the zeal of a Torquemada...
Some other would-be social bridges have been campaigning, with varying degrees of zeal, for roles as certified Carter hostesses. One of them is Vicki Bagley, wife of an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Vicki, 33, and Husband Smith Bagley, 41, moved to Washington from Winston-Salem, N.C., almost two years ago. They paid $650,000 for a big house in Georgetown, added a tennis court and other amenities, and eventually carved themselves a niche as big Carter boosters. It clicked. Says Vicki: "Six months after we were here, we were associated with Carter and all the dinnerparty invitations...