Word: zealousness
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Another Miramax import, the film tracks the misadventures of some twentysomethings in Scotland, nice little punks in their own special ways. The movie's humble narrator is Renton (Ewan McGregor), heroin addict by zealous choice, as he informs us in sympathetically bitter intonations...
Kerrey recruited his candidates like a zealous corporate headhunter eager for his 10% commission. In Idaho he tried to persuade Minnick, a former CEO of the construction-products firm TJ International, to challenge first-term Republican Larry Craig. For several months, he called every week, and each time Minnick said no, he was too old, didn't like Washington and couldn't win anyway. Kerrey authorized a $25,000 poll and found out that while Minnick's popularity was just 11%, only one- third of Idaho voters recognized Craig's name, and many were more moderate than...
That opinion was backed up, after the crash, by Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Pena, who professed satisfaction with ValuJet's zealous attention to regulators' concerns, a stance echoed by some of his colleagues. Not everyone agreed. DOT Inspector General Mary Schiavo, a presidential appointee who acts as a watchdog for all the agency's programs, including the FAA, ruffled feathers by publicly declaring she would not fly ValuJet. Perhaps she was familiar with the FAA report issued just nine days before the crash and first published by the Chicago Tribune last week. According to that document, the low-cost...
...victim-people enough from that buffeting. Buchanan would protect and wield a mighty government apparatus to do so, a government that builds trade walls and immigrant-repelling fences, that imposes punitive taxes on imports, that polices the hiring and firing practices of business with the arrogance of the most zealous affirmative-action enforcer...
...well below the national average--or how many goods are exported with the help of Clinton's hated trade agreements, Buchanan could count on large, rapt, eager crowds wherever he went, of displaced workers and converted flower children and anyone hungry for true conviction. Some proved too zealous even for Buchanan. On Thursday he was forced to suspend his campaign co-chairman Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, when it was revealed that Pratt had spoken to a 1992 gathering in Colorado that included a speaker from Aryan Nations. Buchanan argued that the Republican establishment was trying...