Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ostensibly governmental checks and balances work to guard against the zealous efforts of paranoid cold warriors--however, in this case the system worked only by accident. Shared authority in government is rooted in the premise that the judgment of one branch of government--or balance--the views of another; such control is worthless if a given lunacy pervades all government organs...
...champion of the elderly, Pepper had held the fate of the delicately balanced compromise in his hands. He had fought against all cuts in benefits, gave ground only grudgingly when concessions had to be made to keep the legislation alive, and responsibly withheld the veto many of his more zealous followers had wanted him to wield. Says Pepper, accurately and with no false modesty: "If I had not voted for it, then there would not have been a package, and there would have been complete chaos...
California judge and loyal Reagan staffman; Director of Central Intelligence William Casey is a seasoned businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience...
...most telling tributes came from the group that had most preoccupied Marx: the working class. In Nicaragua, the employees of a soap factory vowed to work double shifts for one week in honor of Marx and "in defense of the revolution." In China, a zealous textile worker went to the trouble of engraving the entire text of the Communist Manifesto (about 20,000 Chinese characters) onto an ivory block 15 mm by 15 mm by 50 mm. It was an odd way to honor the man who had urged the workers of the world to shake off their chains...
...more conservative President than Ronald Reagan in this century?" asks Presidential Assistant Michael Deaver. "Never." As for Phillips, Viguerie and the rest, Deaver has run out of fraternal feeling. "Screw 'em," he says, "and you can quote me." The President is far more politic but knows that his zealous conservative constituents need him more than he needs them. The 1982 elections, in which the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent $4.5 million but had scant influence, produced a moderate Congress. To govern, Reagan must deal with Congress, not with the right. "We're not such a great majority...