Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of Kemp's problem thus far has been that he seems more comfortable promoting ideas than selling himself. When proselytizing about his economic theories -- the virtues of tax cuts, the need for currency reform and a dollar "as good as gold" -- he displays the earnest exuberance of a junior professor addressing a pep rally. Beneath the hearty veneer and football-star luster, Kemp harbors a curious personal reticence. When asked what his appeal is to voters, he answers, "I think my ideas are popular, and I think I can articulate them as well as anyone...
Last June Georges and Messina began the project in earnest and Georges and his sister Gigi spent the entire summer working on it. The two updated the entries Georges already had, found volunteers to write others, and interviewed alumni for entries on the remaining schools...
IRISH Playwright Graham Reid understands the importance of being earnest, but he hasn't quite grasped the importance of being compelling...
...courtly Soviet diplomat is explaining to his earnest, rumpled American counterpart why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief...
...seven top executives of Guinness and of Morgan Grenfell, the London bank that acted as the brewer's financial adviser, have been asked to resign as a result of the scandal, which has been dubbed "Guinnessgate" by some British newspapers. Among those fired: Guinness Chairman Earnest Saunders and Morgan Grenfell Chief Executive Christopher Reeves. Some of the executives could face criminal prosecution, and Guinness has already been hit by lawsuits from Distillers' shareholders...