Word: zealousness
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...Thanks to over-zealous Afghan recruiters, many had only a vague idea what they were signing up for. Private Shamsuddin, a square-jawed 22-year-old ex-tractor driver from the northwestern province of Faryab, left home with dreams of foreign travel and what by Afghan standards counts as serious money. "They told us we'd be getting $250 a month and that training would be in Turkey," he says. Shamsuddin has since discovered he's actually making $30 a month ($50 once he's completed training) and the only bright lights he gets to see once a week...
Speaking for those who feared encroachment on the principles of academic freedom, Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, dismissed anti-subversive bills as mere publicity stunts by over-zealous lawmakers...
...please don't characterize any of these activities as obsessions. The word has that connotation, you know: zealous, pathological--dare I say it?--nuts. This, undoubtedly, is why Robert A. Caro abjures it; says, instead, that he has spent the past 27 years writing his monumental 1,000-plus-page volumes on the life of Lyndon Johnson, with many more years in both his life and Johnson's to go, because he is "interested in how power works." Interested, indeed. Captain Ahab was "interested" in Moby Dick. "Between love and madness lies" Calvin Klein's "Interest...
Harvard’s intention to build a three-story modern art museum in the middle of the Riverside residential community shows that town-gown problems are not always the fault of over-zealous neighborhood activists. Harvard often errs on the side of too much development at inopportune times with seemingly arbitrary reasoning. The current plan, which would bring an estimated 700 visitors at peak times to visit a three-story museum that houses approximately 80 parking spaces for 170 staff members, shows that Harvard has made little effort to accommodate neighbors’ concerns...
...fact, motivation is the primary prerequisite for a special concentration. The application process weeds out less zealous applicants, as each student must turn in a 10-page application to be reviewed by the 14-person Special Concentration Standing Committee. The committee meets to review applications three times each year and each time rejects a substantial number of students. Rejected applicants often fail to distinguish a unique program of study or to convince the committee they are not just trying to devise a plan that excuses them from tedious introductory coursework in another field. According to Foster, there...