Word: zealousness
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Last spring, we admonished former UC President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 for his zealous attempts to raise students’ annual termbill fee 114 percent on the grounds that the UC had yet to prove the need or the capacity to warrant such a considerable hike in the council’s budget. But, we were hesitantly optimistic. Our words: “A substantial increase in the council’s budget might be warranted. More money would allow the council to organize bigger and better campus-wide events, bring top name bands to perform more...
...people have allowed the pendulum to swing much, much further in the direction of free and easy merger opportunities," says Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Georgetown University Law Center. "Businessmen see the opportunity to put through deals now that they couldn't have ten years ago." A more zealous Justice Department blocked the merger of two Los Angeles grocery chains during the 1960s on the grounds that the combined firms would claim 5% of the area's food-store business. Today corporate acquisitions that result in market shares of up to 20% routinely go unchallenged...
Once a viable safeguard for library books, this antiquated search is now an ineffective and unnecessary hassle. Even the most zealous and thorough guards cannot catch everything—all one would really have to do is place a book underneath a few notebooks to get away with their treacherous book-stealing scheme. It’s such a shame. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had the space-age technology to automate the check and detect the exit of hidden library materials not yet checked...
...often directly (and needlessly) challenging the TF’s every word. Hostility toward TFs is not uncommon, but I’d venture that it has never manifested itself so openly before. This is pure viciousness, barely reigned in and often resulting in two or three zealous students backing the TF into a corner, flustered and inarticulate. I’ve had my share of inept, over-enthusiastic, or even demonic TFs, but I still sympathize when section degenerates into persecution of some hapless graduate student...
...believe that everything does. Fonda has always been the intense type. What has united the various phases of her life--from daughter of a Hollywood legend to Parisian sex kitten, from Oscar-winning actress to Hanoi Jane, from first lady of fitness to Sun Belt Christian--is a zealous belief that each transformation has brought her closer to enlightenment, and an urgent need to share...