Word: ardor
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...warning that spending-fueled deficits will cause inflation, reduce demand for U.S. Treasuries and shaft future generations. They don't seem so worried about an imminent depression, which would explode deficits in addition to the shorter-term pain, and their newfound fear of borrowing has not cooled their ardor for budget-busting tax cuts. "They talk about fiscal restraint, but they've got an atrocious record, and they've still got atrocious plans," says Robert Bixby, executive director of the nonpartisan Concord Coalition...
...Apple's shareholders are like its customers. They are zealots and have an unreasonable attachment to the company. Now that they have been given justification for their ardor, they can hit the "buy" button at their online brokerage accounts until carpal tunnel syndrome kicks...
...clicked immediately. In less than a year, they were earning $30,000 a week at Manhattan's Copacabana night club. In live appearances at movie theaters they stoked ardor of Beatles intensity. But it was on the infant medium of TV that Martin and Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. Their jokes became instant catchphrases, like the running gag where Jerry...
...hands of hard-line anti-American conservatives, led by Ahmadinejad and supported by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Together they have used the Bush Administration's opposition as an opportunity to crack down on reformists. Ahmadinejad initially greeted Obama's victory with a rare congratulatory letter, though his ardor then seemed to cool as he called on the U.S. to "halt your support to the uncultivated and rootless, forged, phony, killers-of-women-and-children Zionists, and allow the Palestinian nation to determine its own destiny." But after Obama's press conference, Ahmadinejad said Iran was ready for "talks...
...show was so hot, way more than it deserved to be. It’s sort of like being a rookie and going straight to the World Series and never going back.” And while he notes that recent seasons haven’t inspired the same ardor, he believes that SNL is now a more polished, sophisticated, and better-written production.Downey recently garnered attention for the spot-on political sketches that he wrote for SNL, particularly the Sarah Palin skits he wrote for Tina Fey. “When I do political stuff, I just want...