Word: zealotous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign themes-tax cut and a balanced budget-with the tight money and lower social-spending ideas favored by traditional conservatives and monetarists. In the process of melding together these views, Shultz somehow managed to ease aside, as key figures in the Reagan campaign, economic eccentrics like supply-side zealot Arthur Laffer and move ahead such mainstream figures as Wriston and Economist Alan Greenspan...
...propaganda campaign to block the stationing, primarily in West Germany, of new NATO nuclear missiles. Compounding the problem was Reagan himself, whose harsh, tough talk to the Kremlin has frightened U.S. supporters abroad and given force to neutralists' arguments that the President is a shoot-from-the-hip zealot, hell-bent on provoking nuclear...
...true martyr seeks martyrdom. Robert Gould Shaw loved music and drawing, spoke German and Spanish easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist...
...fact, Kemp may have misunderstood what the President was proposing. (Said one White House aide: "There are worse things than having daylight between this Administration and Jack Kemp." Kemp is widely regarded as a tax-slashing zealot.) For a married couple, the 50% rate now applies only to that portion of taxable income above $60,000 a year. Under the President's plan, the 50% rate by 1984 would apply only to taxable income exceeding $215,000-a level of wealth claimed on only three-hundredths of 1% of all tax returns, according to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan...
...Shepard, better known as a playwright than as an actor, successfully portrays Cal's violent transition from skeptic to zealot. Shepard's brooding, understated intensity adds a dash of noir to the film...