Word: zealousness
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...same alleged securities violations described ; in a civil case that the Securities and Exchange Commission filed in September. The SEC accused Milken of, among other offenses, manipulating stock prices to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits and defraud his clients. The lawsuit portrayed Milken as a zealous dealmaker whose disrespect for tradition led him to disregard the law as well. A suburban Los Angeles native who attended Wharton Business School, Milken was the pioneer of junk bonds as a financing technique for midsize companies and later as the potent fuel for takeovers...
...little discouraged when I lost, and I was worried that some issues I cared about might be ignored," said Lockwood. "I think a lot of people may have supported the ideas but worried that I would move the council too far to the left or be too zealous in my support of liberal proposals...
...when he said, "This campaign is not about ideology. It's about competence." Jackson was the most prominent of the party's progressives -- and Jackson, not coincidentally, had never held office or managed anything with generally acknowledged competence. Dukakis, instead of recruiting the energies of his party's most zealous wing, as Bush had done by including Robertson's troops, was telling them in effect to get lost, or at least to lose their labels, while promoting his own credentials as a manager. It was a weird rallying cry: "Let Michael be Michael...
Kahane personifies the most zealous strand in Israeli politics. This week the high court will decide whether his ultra-extremist Kach Party can be banned from the ballot under a controversial new law that excludes parties deemed racist or antidemocratic. But in a campaign marked by mounting anger and violence, more and more voters are deciding that the proliferating splinter parties on both the extreme right and left offer something irresistible: a clear-cut, dramatic solution to the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising...
...model-airplane building and flying a hobby or a sport? That is a chicken- and-egg question endlessly debated by zealous practitioners and uncomprehending outsiders. There is little question in the mind of Chip Hyde, 16, of Yuma, Ariz. Three times he has been champion of the open class of radio-controlled aerobatic flying. That means he has beaten all comers with his skill and his pink-and-blue Conquest, driven by an alcohol-fueled engine the size of a human fist. He must practice continuously to keep up his skill, sometimes four days a week for an hour...