Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some Lisbon radicals, even the Communist Party is a moderate force. Currently, the main cause of trouble in Portugal is the extreme left, which consists of eight small, zealous, fragmented parties and other organizations, each of which has its cohort of workers, soldiers and neighborhood committees. The groups range from the Portuguese Democratic Movement, which is generally regarded as a front for the Communists (the M.D.P. denies it) to the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat, a noisy, university-based party, hundreds of whose members were jailed during the Communist-influenced regime of ousted Premier Vasco dos Santos...
...Famous locations and faces flash by in Knightley's 120-year extravaganza, but some things never change. In the correspondents' rush to be first with the news, the truth is usually distorted and sometimes sacrificed. Sooner or later, a government official gets around to asking a zealous reporter, "Whose side are you on?" The journalist must then try to formulate a convincing answer out of his sense of professional responsibility, fear of losing his job, private prejudices, and not always flattering motives for chasing war news in the first place...
...them. Whatever that mania is called, New York City Fireman Dennis Smith, 35, has it in its most extreme form. In Smith's view, where there is fire there is always smoke-and it is his sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary that described the routine and anguish of men whose job is actuarially the most dangerous...
Sooner or later, however, governments must act to curb inflation?and risk recession?by curtailing spending and restricting the growth of money supply. Many economists indeed blame all post-World War II recessions on overly zealous anti-inflationary policy. But that criticism obscures a vital point. In a society that operates by private decision-making rather than central command, governments must make difficult judgments on the exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury...
...what extent the new rulers will carry out vengeful reprisals. The foreign evacuees saw a few bodies on the roads and highways last week, but these could have been "accidental" victims of the forced march to the countryside. What seems certain is that Cambodia's period of zealous self-imposed isolation will continue. Radio Phnom-Penh reported last week that the nation's new leaders were busy campaigning to "clear the country of the filth and garbage left behind by the war of aggression." Though it also spoke of rebuilding the country's industry, the broadcast left...