Word: zealously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next month, 4,820 runners-one for each kilometer of the route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going over the legal 37 m.p.h. limit...
...Zealous nationalism stirs strife...
...Jewish settlements that have been established in the West Bank since it was captured by Israel in 1967. Many were moved by an idealistic conviction that they were settling in Eretz Israel, the biblical land of the prophets. Others had more contemporary, political motives. In any case, their zealous nationalism has spawned increasingly violent bouts of intercommunal strife between Arabs and Jews. As the reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam among the Arab districts, smashing windows and slashing tires, even invading Arab homes and beating up their occupants. The nationalists have also acquired disproportionate political power...
...investments is now institutionalized, virtually built into the Corporation's administrative process. Although most analysts label the ACSR's recommendations "moderate," the committee's new activism shows that the movement of the Corporation's administrative gears will bring the controversy to the attention of the Corporation as readily as zealous student opposition. And with skepticism toward Harvard's South Africa-related investments built into the Corporation, it will be increasingly difficult for Harvard's Fellows to ignore the implications of these holdings, and more unlikely that the controversy will fade away. The Root Of All Evil Harvard...
...early April Carter had lost patience with the frustrating process of trying to deal with Iran's changing leadership and the erratic Khomeini. He thought he had reached agreement for the Iran government to take control of the hostages from the more zealous militants, but Khomeini squelched any deal. As political pressure built up in the U.S. for more forceful action, Carter embarked on a very risky two-track course. Publicly, he pressured the Western European nations to join the U.S. in breaking diplomatic ties with Iran and in cutting off most trade, hinting none too subtly that he would...