Word: fervor
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...Saddam spent much of his youth with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, an army officer who in 1941 supported a failed attempt to topple Iraq's British-controlled monarchy. Talfah's five-year imprisonment instilled in the young Saddam a profound bitterness that would give rise to a nationalistic fervor and an acute desire to rid not only Iraq but also the entire Arab world of foreign influence...
...addition, universities do not exist to promote political agendas which, despite the fervor with which activists and idealists espouse them, are just temporary answers to long-term problems. University administrators should consider such issues, but in the context of long-term values and without political partisanship...
...Soviet Union teeters on the brink of disintegration as republics revolt against the center How Gorbachev moves to save his crumbling empire will affect not only his country but also the world. ^ A chorus of complaints from around the union. > A resurgence of both Russian nationalism and Islamic fervor inspires worries about communal discord. ^ Why a Soviet historian believes the empire should collapse...
...Roderick Hills, a Drexel director and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the deepest threat posed by the investment firm's collapse may be the fervor for regulation it inspires. As Hills told TIME correspondent Richard Behar, "The inevitable result of a significant financial failure is that somebody thinks they can pass a law to stop another one. And it's just as inevitable that the law they pass does more harm than good. I doubt that there are any broad legislative lessons to be drawn from the Drexel experience, and I fear that our Congress will...
With the election set for Sunday, the two candidates for the presidency of Nicaragua continue to campaign against type. Ortega, 44, the sometimes arrogant incumbent who has ruled since 1979, is hopscotching around the country with the fervor of a write-in contender. Gone are his military fatigues in favor of cowboy togs, complete with pointed boots. Chamorro, 60, a political neophyte who depicts herself as the best chance to save Nicaragua, placidly directs her campaign from her living room...