Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year-old Raviv was on Shin Bet's payroll for nearly eight years, during which he was allowed to promote zealous antigovernment views and form Eyal. The security service turned a blind eye to the rabble rousing in exchange for information about far-right activities. At the Shamgar hearings, news accounts say, Shin Bet officials acknowledged that last August they asked Raviv to check out Amir. Raviv reported back that Amir...
...experience has been that the African-American community is not as homophobic and zealous as people think," Reeves said...
...bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical. If he weren't in there doing this kind of research every day, some ridiculous spending projects would never have seen the light of public scrutiny...
...takes a lot to discourage the zealous advocates of congressional term limits. A major Supreme Court ruling isn't enough, certainly. Last week's decision, in which the court voided an Arkansas term-limits measure, had the effect of overturning similar laws that had been approved in 22 states. And the movement appears headed for another disappointment in coming months, when the Senate is expected to consider and reject a term-limiting constitutional amendment, which failed in the House in March. But advocates of term limits, an idea supported by two-thirds of American voters, refuse to give...
David Dunklee, on the other hand, feels a renewed pride in the N.R.A. now that its focus has shifted from sporting issues to a zealous defense of gun ownership. Like many N.R.A. members, he fears that the citizenry's right to bear arms has been sorely challenged by such incidents as the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the 1992 standoff between Randy Weaver and federal agents at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. "There should be more investigation. The government needs to explain itself more fully," says Dunklee, a range instructor in Phoenix, Arizona...