Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with union leaders to discuss his economic and social reforms, which include an immediate 10% raise in the minimum wage and a reduction of the work week to 35 hours. But action on the changes was postponed until this week. Reason: Mitterrand wants to avoid appearing too zealous so as not to damage the Socialists' chances in the parliamentary elections June 14 and 21. These will determine just how much power they have...
...couldn't recommend it for anyone else." Furthermore, claims Abrams, the code could so restrict availability of infant formula that "the health of children may actually suffer." Legal scholars might disagree about the gravity of those constitutional problems, but the decision is consistent with the Administration's zealous support for American business, and its antagonism toward economic regulation...
...Socialist writer, Agee begins to observe with a foreigner's freshness. He remembers the early Iron Curtain: a chicken-wire fence in an old couple's garden, preventing imperialist rabbits of the British Zone from devouring the Voik's lettuce. He recalls the angst of a zealous Red poet when Khrushchev denounced Stalin: "In a fit of self-loathing he wished to be a lumberjack in some remote country like Norway. Very shortly after that, he was introduced to a Norwegian lumberjack who wanted nothing more than to leave his backwoods existence and be a poet engaged...
...bizarre outpouring reminded some observers of the more hysterical manifestations of the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s. In reality it was the latest national morality campaign promulgated by South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, the former general turned strongman who has been zealous about rooting out graft and creating what he calls a "clean and honest climate" in the country. At the start of his purification drive last summer, Chun ordered the dismissal of 8,000 government employees for corruption and inefficiency. He also accused ten prominent citizens, including an ex-Prime Minister, a former top intelligence officer...
...N.R.A. leadership tried to keep the association from becoming primarily a political pressure group, and even decided to move the organization's headquarters out of Washington, D.C. But a coup led by zealous gun-law opponents at the 1977 N.R.A. convention rescinded the move and replaced all of the group's leaders. The new regime, dedicated to hard-line political action, is headed by Harlon Carter, a former Border Patrol official. The N.R. A. is currently conducting a membership drive, in hopes of swelling its ranks to 2 million by the time of the annual meeting next month...