Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, the development means different things to different people. For zealous purists, it means another purchase in the larger sell-out of college athletics. For stuffy academics, it means the elevation of a recreational position--football coach--to the status of a tenured professorship. And for Marxist intellectuals, it means a snaky move by prissy, bourgeois capitalist universities to dominate their proletarian counterparts on the grid-iron...
This fund could include Sears, whose zealous auto mechanics performed extra work on cars that didn't need it. Sears settled with the State of California and offered $50 rebate coupons. Then there's Salomon Brothers, whose enthusiastic bond department hoodwinked Uncle Sam by buying more government bonds than it was entitled to. Salomon settled with the SEC for $290 million. Finally, there's Prudential Securities, the brokerage arm of the Rock of Gibraltar, which paid $370 million to settle a multitude of claims from investors who were coaxed into buying some trendy limited partnerships, which limited them...
Greenspan's approach has its zealous supporters. Allen Sinai, chief economist for Lehman Brothers, applauds the "totally unprecedented" new strategy of pre-emption. "The old way never worked," he says. "It was always too little and too late." Nevertheless, last week's economic news confirmed that the expansion is in scant danger of overheating. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% in April as falling food and fuel expenses offset a jump in medical costs. At the same time, wholesale prices slipped 0.1% overall. "Here we are three years into the recovery and inflation is still declining," says Ross DeVol, an economist...
...those condemning the brutal, unholy shooting. Dr. Baruch Goldstein was an extreme members of an extremist group in an extraordinary position. But the settlements were created by the State of Israel, and supported by American Jews (through, among other means, US loan guarantees), and deliberately populated by the most zealous Zionist expansionists, who were armed and supported by the Israeli army...
...have been committed in the name of money and celebrity. But even the more creative commentators had trouble imagining what line of reasoning could have convinced the conspirators that the macabre assault would enhance Harding's Olympic edge and marketability. If the crime was solely the work of a zealous entourage that aimed to cash in on her post-Olympic fame, even the most narrow-minded conspirator must have feared that the attack might backfire, sabotaging Harding's concentration on the ice and further tainting her gutsy image...