Word: zealots
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...Something tells me that's why you're calling..." I like Ollie, but he's a bit of a zealot...
...sharp-witted and clever politician. His power base is his position as Speaker of the mullah- dominated Majlis, or parliament, but he also has close ties to Khomeini and to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards. Though his title of hojatoleslam is just one rank below ayatullah, Rafsanjani is no Islamic zealot. On most national issues he is said to have recently become a pragmatist, willing, for instance, to open doors to the West and to compromise in order to end the war with Iraq...
...rooted for the Sox all the way, as hard and as diligently as I ever rooted in all my life (and spurred by my son Ethan, a Sox zealot too young to remember any previous post-season play...
Then, too, there are similar passions in poetry and politics. However dignified poetry or politics may appear, there is something sublimely irrational at their centers. Both appeal to the irrational as well, to the zealot in you stirring in the ice of your calm and stately nature. Zealots themselves, they seem to need to win something, to force a climax almost sexual...
...team of James Baker and his top assistant, Darman, took over at Treasury and set about producing revised recommendations. Their report, Treasury II, issued in May last year, restored many tax benefits for business. Reagan, ever the salesman who has to sell himself first, had become a zealot for his new cause. He plugged Treasury II in a major TV address ("America, go for it!"), followed by a series of barnstorming speeches around the country.The President derided the complexity of the present tax code by frequently reeling off this incomprehensible last sentence of section 509(a): "For purposes of paragraph...