Word: zeal
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...into tiny pieces, which he was desperately trying to paste together by hand and by law. Was Gore just supposed to concede all over again, with Democrats across the land complaining that the only reason he hadn't won was because of botched ballots, undercounted votes and the blind zeal of secretary of state Katherine Harris, co-chair of Florida's Bush campaign? She did everything she could to delay the hand counts that Florida law allows, and then said that since counties had missed their deadline, the results wouldn't count...
...director's replacement was no improvement. Although she promised a zeal for children, she also allegedly had a zeal to spend money. Even as children in the agency's care couldn't get dental exams and foster parents couldn't get first-aid training, Grace Home was spending $250,000 in foster-care funds to defend a sexual-harassment suit and gave an additional $130,000 to a board member. The books listed $6,725 in Toys "R" Us gift certificates with no receipt. The new director gave herself nearly $10,000 for a retroactive pay raise, car payments...
...This increasing dependence on the zeal of the oppo teams has paid far richer dividends for Bush than for Gore. And for two reasons: First, the Bush/RNC team has been far more assiduous and painstaking in its work. And second, the fruits of its labors have been of considerably more value to its overall strategy...
...liberties have always occupied a sacred place in our nation's history. At the same time, they have also been vulnerable to the claims of national security. The recent case of Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is an example of the terrible consequences of the government's zeal for security gone awry...
CULTURE WARS In the 1980s he and Tipper were criticized by Hollywood--a big source of party money--for their fight against obscene lyrics. In 1987 the couple expressed "regret" about their crusade, promising that their zeal would never amount to censorship...