Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sold out, every one of them." That dour assessment came from Jude Wanniski, a fanatic believer in supply-side economics, after a visit to the White House last week. By "they" he meant members of the President's economic team, who in Wanniski's zealous view have all but abandoned supply-side theory-one of the basic doctrines of Reaganomics...
...vote in the June elections, got five of the 22 portfolios in the new Cabinet. But Begin's most important appointment was his selection of General Ariel Sharon as his new Defense Minister. Sharon, who served as Agriculture Minister in the last government and was a zealous builder of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, has wanted the defense post ever since Ezer Weizman resigned last year. Instead, Begin kept the portfolio himself, quipping that if the aggressive Sharon were to become Defense Minister, he might "surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." This time Begin...
...abuse may not receive an attorney's assistance [June 15] is frightening. Such cases are frequently filed by well-intentioned but overeager social workers. One person's abuse can often be another's discipline. In many cases, the only things protecting parental rights are a zealous attorney and a judge's common sense. I'd hate to have to rely on only one of those protections...
...human nature.) Both the Soviets and Americans have continued to pile up their own arsenals, each trying to get ahead of the other permanently, which is impossible, and thus enticing newcomer nations to build up their armaments as well. And who are these nations? They are the unstable, the zealous, the military-controlled, the lunatic-led. They do not share the U.S.-Soviet diplomatic history. If the Americans and the Soviets were to cry "Enough!" then at least we might be spared the sight of Colonel Gaddafi grinning before a bouquet of microphones, about to make an important announcement...
...local grass roots, Christian schools today are found in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes from kindergarten through grade twelve, at academic levels that range from fairly high to very low. Discrimination in favor of religion is a basic raison d'etre, and at the more zealous schools, a tub-thumping suspicion of all nonreligious learning fills the air. In a 150-page how-to-start-a-school guide for would-be organizers, Educator Robert Billings (now a top Reaganite administrator in the Department of Education) warns in capital letters: NO UNSAVED INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE ON THE STAFF...