1.   But he had deceptive talent, competitive zeal and a good mind.

2.   Competitive zeal threw traditional news judgment by the boards, especially during the O.J. Simpson trial.

3.   Icy winters did not cool his competitive zeal.

4.   If they want a lesson in competitive zeal, Granato is the guy to seek.

5.   It was something Dare had done a thousand times, with passion, with competitive zeal, with the surreal thrill that he was flying without wings.

6.   No one, as we know, works out more diligently than Rice, and rehabbing from this injury has only increased his competitive zeal.

7.   Some of the penchant for patents may be silly or the result of misguided competitive zeal, according to Josh Lerner, an economist at the Harvard business school.

8.   The closeness of so many races seems to have spurred greater bursts of competitive zeal, with reports of borderline abuses and rule-stretching by some studios.

9.   The e-mail is alive with ideas and competitive zeal, punctuated with profanity and exclamation points.

10.   The European funeral business, the company explained both times, had never seen the sort of efficiencies and competitive zeal that Service Corporation brought to the United States.