Word: zealousness
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...fact" resolution that would in effect seal Clinton's guilt without convicting him of impeachable offenses. The two leaders talked on the phone. They passed notes. And on Thursday morning they met for 90 minutes in Daschle's conference room. Along the way, they held off the more zealous members of their parties--the ones who wanted to torch the negotiations and break open the gun closets. Late Thursday, Lott called Daschle's cell phone in the middle of a closed-door Democratic caucus to tell him there would be no deal. The rules for going forward would be Republican...
...Eleanor was unwilling to retreat to an inoffensive corner of the White House. Zealous in pushing her causes, she would interrupt Franklin's sacred cocktail hour with a sheaf of policy papers. When, in the last months of her husband's life, Eleanor still pursued her own agenda for good government--berating F.D.R. for the appointment of two Assistant Secretaries of State whom she considered reactionaries--his aides tried to limit contact between the sick, weary President and his wife. Of course she had her reasons for disengaging emotionally from the marriage--primarily the discovery in 1918 of Franklin...
...course, Harvard is not directly constrained by the Constitution. But Harvard students and faculty owe a special, zealous allegiance to the First Amendment, which epitomizes the liberal values that Harvard aspires to preserve above all others. So it is shocking when Harvard students say that the free exercise of religion and the freedom of speech must take back seats to other values of dubious significance, such as "a sense of community" or an extremely broad notion of a woman's right to a legal abortion...
...chief executive officers to dinner to talk about restructuring large institutions--in this case, he had the U.S. Congress in mind. He rearranged the furniture in the House in ways that will affect every Speaker who follows him: gone are the dynastic committee chairs, who could foil any zealous Speaker's plans; Gingrich scrapped the seniority system and installed his own disciples, some of whom were three and four names down on the list. He abolished other committees and 25 subcommittees and sliced their staffs so that power would devolve to the king, not the vassals...
...compact, they interfere with the customer's experience of the fish. To further complicate matters, even if the fish, rice and presentation are perfect, everything can be mucked up with a simple flick of the wrist. The bane of all self-respecting sushi-makers is the over-zealous American, raised on Tabasco and A-1, who saturates the humble roll with soy sauce. There are no two ways to dip; in the case of nigiri it is always fish-side down...