Word: zealousness
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...after all, the most conservative President elected in the past half-century. But throughout his long march to the presidency, Reagan had the unfailing loyalty and visceral support of two overlapping constituencies: the morally righteous New Right and the fiscally indignant Old Right. But increasingly, Reagan's zealous supporters feel betrayed by the Administration, if not quite yet by the President himself...
...conduct of the press after Woodward and Bernstein could only help Nixon's side of the argument. Watergate beatified the press; it gave reporters a model and an ambition. It made them zealous, fierce to expose, hungry to bring back trophies. A certain bloodlust went through the profession. Public officials, even the most obscure, knew that young reporters would go over their lives like flesh-eating birds. That knowledge has served to deplete the ranks of men and women willing to serve in government. Watergate helped to destroy the boundary between public and private life. Says University of Chicago...
...even with the cushion of the Campaign, the Faculty's zealous salary-raising took its toll in tuition costs, which soared this spring, bringing the total cost of spending the '82-'83 academic year at Harvard to $12,100. "You just have to balance one against the other," shrugs Gerrity...
...which totaled $100,000. A Chase banker recalled the women's saying that the money came from street sales of flowers by members of Moon's Unification Church. The Moonies, who refer to their leader as "Father," and who regard him as a manifestation of God, were zealous collectors of funds, and deposits to his Chase accounts were frequent-perhaps too frequent. In a New York City federal court last week, a jury of ten women and two men decided, after four days of deliberation, that Moon was guilty of conspiring to avoid taxes...
...world's great faiths. It has LIFE magazine-size pages, endless charts and graphs, numerous illustrations and enough credibility in its facts, conclusions and methodology to make it a bench mark in our understanding of the true religious state of the planet. Even for as zealous a researcher as Barrett, 54, an Anglican missionary, the project required the patience of Job. He trekked to 212 countries and territories, often lugging bulky statistical histories, occasionally confronting suspicious customs agents, frequently phoning his team of 21 editors and consultants around the world. He also tapped some 500 local experts in various...