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Jobs turned from life science to applied technology. Wozniak and some other friends gravitated toward an outfit called the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975, and Jobs would occasionally drop by. Wozniak was the computer zealot, the kind of guy who can see a sonnet in a circuit. What Jobs saw was profit. At convocations of the Homebrew, Jobs showed scant interest in the fine points of design, but he was enthusiastic about selling the machines Wozniak was making...
Khomeini sends forth a zealot...
...into the street and greet the world. But what about that Hare Krishna in the Square who has selected Harvard as his personal, proselytizing mission? Miss Manners informs us that Harvard can boldly go about the business of the day without concern for the feelings of the street zealot or the wrath of the Almighty...
...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...