Word: zealously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...access to a flood memorial." What is the construction of two parking lots on the Southwest Side of Chicago supposed to prove? According to the legislation, the lots will "demonstrate methods of facilitating the transfer of passengers between different modes of transportation." But each of these projects has a zealous congressional defender ready to hail it as a boon rather than a boondoggle. Democratic Congressman William Lipinski is the man behind the $3 million Chicago parking lots, which are designed to serve a rapid-transit line that will not be completed until 1992. "The lots tie directly with the mass...
...principles proved corruptible, where his powers seemed to fail. It is a powerful irony that for all the differences, the Iran affair smacks of Watergate, in the sense that the abuse of the highest power undoes the king (the highest power manipulated by little knights, stupid and zealous). That one of the most beloved American Presidents should have found himself in danger of recapitulating the fates of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson is American political theater edging toward the Shakespearean...
...other alleged insiders have done. The firm plans to provide Freeman with legal counsel and keep him on the job unless he is proved guilty. Confides a New York City securities lawyer familiar with the charges: "This is one case where the Government may have been a little too zealous." Kidder too aims to defend Wigton, its accused executive, against the charges...
That of course happened to Walt Disney, Howard Johnson and Margery's father, C.W. Post. Apple invents their stories through a series of flashbacks and vignettes. Here is Post, a zealous vegetarian, who sees dry cereal not as a means to get rich but as a way to "save all the animals on the face of the earth." There is Johnson, who spends much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney...
Calling North and Poindexter "heroes to this country for a long time," Hatch said that Congress should "stop being vindictive." He added, "They are zealous people who want to help the freedom fighters, and believe me they are freedom fighters...