Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie has had a fascination with this topic since the beginning of this term--when he made it an issue at the North House Committee and subsequently came to a meeting of the full Council to vent his views. Unfortunately, Charlie's zealous instincts are as misplaced as his arithmetic is bad ($3808 is not one-twelfth of this year's $70,000 budget...
...more union rights and severe constraints against layoffs. But, paradoxically, businessmen are suddenly starting to enjoy an unprecedented respectability, thanks largely to the Socialists. French people of all classes have traditionally looked askance at the pursuit of commerce and made businessmen feel socially inferior. Now, as part of its zealous austerity-minded campaign to revive investment and encourage new, advanced industries, the government has been extolling free enterprise. Mitterrand himself has formally endorsed "the right to make a fortune." Captains of industry like Schlumberger's Jean Riboud are featured heroically on the covers of traditionally leftist magazines. As Sociologist...
...Derek Bok had been president (of the United States) in 1865, there would have been no 14th Amendment," charged one zealous Law School student at a rally on the steps of Memorial Church a few weeks back, linking Bok's opposition of divestiture with some imagined conspiracy to deny Blacks the right to vote...
...This whole thing has been caused by a tiny zealous group of people who have nothing better to do for seven days a week." Hanslin said...
...well-run factory is like a ballet. It should be planned with zealous attention to detail and supervised with no tolerance for mistakes. This year some 7,000 executives from such firms as IBM, Borg-Warner and PPG Industries will travel to Winter Park, Fla., to hear that message from Philip B. Crosby, 57, perhaps the leading evangelist of quality in the U.S. and author of Quality Is Free. Cost of a five-day seminar: $1,650. Crosby tells the executives that if they follow his strict rules and manufacture a product right the first time, their companies could increase...