Word: zealously
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...mile journey would have tired even the most zealous globetrotter, so it was understandable if Pope John Paul II appeared just a trifle fatigued during his seven-day visit to Australia last week. Arriving directly from a six-day tour of Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji and New Zealand, the peripatetic Pontiff marked his first visit to the island continent with a blitz that , included stops in the capital, Canberra, the state capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and the outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never...
...Another zealous cowboy is Vince Cannistraro, 41, a twelve-year veteran of the CIA. He took over Central American operations from North last spring after first being responsible for operations in Africa. He has directed the channeling of weapons and aid to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebels fighting the Marxist regime in Angola. Insiders say Cannistraro managed to supply Savimbi with more arms than the White House originally intended. A quiet official who joined the NSC in 1983, Cannistraro has helped funnel supplies to the mujahedin guerrillas at war with the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan...
Still, today's zealous prosecutors have a new tool that gives them a fighting chance to take the organization out of organized crime, if not actually to rub out the Mob. The same RICO law that allows prosecutions against criminal organizations also provides for civil action to seize their assets, from cash to cars and hangouts. A prime example of this technique was the action taken in 1981 against Teamsters Local 560 after it was shown to have been dominated by New York's Genovese family. A civil suit led to the discharge of the local's officers. The union...
...first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow of doubt vanished." From that moment on, he was a zealous Christian...
Reagan cultivates the young. They have become a principal theme of his old age, the promise of a legacy. Such are his ambitions. Just as Franklin Roosevelt's ideas set the style that would dominate the next four decades of American politics, Reagan--a zealous admirer of F.D.R.'s when young--wants the younger generation to complete the Reagan Revolution...