Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This month Mormons from round the world gathered in Salt Lake City for their semiannual general conference, filling hotels and homes, jamming Temple Square-a clean-cut, well-dressed crowd, heavy with zealous young. In a vote that was never in doubt, they "sustained" Prophet Lee in his selection. There was talk of expansion, modernization, more efficient administration, but little talk of change. "Lee is the man of the hour," said Apostle Gordon Hinckley, 62, one of his closest associates. "But instead of saying he will innovate, I would say he will change the way of implementing those principles that...
...statistics clearly indicate that productivity gains result much more from heavy business investments in labor-saving machinery than from zealous work by employees. The oil-pipeline industry led all others, with a 1960-70 average annual productivity increase of 10.1% a year. Some reasons: pumping stations along the newest lines are unmanned and computer-controlled; linewalkers have been replaced by airplane patrols checking for leaks. The sugar industry recorded an average annual gain of 4.2%, largely because it has been making greater use of power scoops and shovels to move sugar around in mills. The shoe industry had the lowest...
...Winnipeg rabbi, Steinberg left home at 15 to attend high school in Chicago, then went to Israel, where he earned a B.A. in Hebrew letters from an institute for foreign students. Even then he had a happy-go-lucky attitude that put him at odds with his religiously zealous classmates. "I chased after girls," recalls Steinberg, still a bachelor. "I was just normal, but around those students I must have come off like a Nazi...
While McGovern has problems of reconciliation with the old pros of the Democratic Party, he also has a few difficulties with the kids who were attracted to him by his apparent ideological purity. Hart concedes that the changing nature of the campaign, the increasing isolation of McGovern from his zealous admirers and his greater reliance on older veterans have had a negative impact. "There is some feeling that the campaign has got so big that it's lost its direction, if not its soul," he says. "A volunteer can no longer run up and rap with McGovern...
Barry Commoner, Sc.D., ecologist. Kenneth Keniston, Sc.D., psychologist. Ravi Shankar, D.M., musician. Unrepentant captor of a whole generation of Americans; cantor for a new faith; nimble magician who conjures up symphonic sitars; zealous missionary of the great melodic and rhythmic traditions of India. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lit.D., author...