Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a cliche that to restore our global competitiveness, we need to reform our educational system. That will take a lot more than money. The educational bureaucracy must be curbed -- education is too important to be left to the educators. Nor can it be left to zealous amateurs more interested in "community rights" or minority cultural traditions than in effective education. We must also loosen the still strangling grasp of "progressive education." Curriculums must be purged of mindless courses. Teachers must be given more independence but also held to higher standards. Families must give early support to their children...
...nomination process had reached a peak. Dad was to become the nominee of the G.O.P. in August 1988, and that obviously raises the profile of Neil Bush. At the same time the regulators, who had been scrupulous in their scrutiny, zealous really, signed an operating agreement with the bank. For the playing field to be absolutely level, I thought it was important for me to be off the board. I didn't want the regulators to feel my presence on the board would have any kind of impact on their progress going forward...
Some diet-company executives conceded to the House subcommittee that parts of the industry have been too zealous. Chief executive Charles Berger of Weight Watchers, an H.J. Heinz subsidiary that takes a moderate approach to weight loss, likened the diet business to Wall Street in the 1980s. "Without touching on the issue of greed," he said, "some companies in our field have overpromised quick weight loss. And the promises have grown increasingly excessive." Others doubt that an industry with so many players can effectively police itself. Ronald Stern, president of the nutrition division at Slim-Fast, a firm that sells...
...Zealous idealists rarely get a chance to lead, and when they do, they rarely show much aptitude for the give-and-take of politics, the careful timing, the restraint. Yet in an irony more exquisite than any he ever envisioned for the stage, Vaclav Havel became not only the conscience but also the commonsense leader of the mass movement that led to Czechoslovakia's orderly ouster of its communist leaders. Having inspired fellow citizens by his rhetoric and unrelenting example, he heard them demand that he take over as head of state. That was not for him, he said...