Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began as an earnest attempt to get low income housing built in Cambridge Referendums were held, working committees formed and proposals drafted all with the goal of providing affordable housing for those punched in the city's tight housing market. But when legislation requiring real estate developers to provide the necessary units was put before the city council two months ago it went off like a political bombshell Tenant groups mobilized, the Chamber of Commerce issued a call to arms and divided city councilors shifted uncomfortably in their seats as the battle lines were drawn...
...results are mixed. Jahn's freewheeling sense of fun threatens to trivialize the earnest symbol of open government that he sees embodied in the luminous atrium, with its office tiers open to view. The free-flowing work space is rarely impeded by walls or doors; at one time, he even had hoped to leave visible the machinery of the escalators. Jahn also sees a democratic statement in his plaza and concourse, where a theater, shops and restaurants will bring rental income to the state while ensuring that this is a government office center that goes on living after...
...major university engages a study group to evaluate its operations. The result? Something earnest but tepid, un- likely to startle anyone, right? Not if it is the State University of New York. Last week a 15-member commission, appointed by Chancellor Clifton R. Wharton Jr. to examine the largest U.S. public university system (370,000 students), issued a report that called SUNY "an extreme example of what not to do in the management of public higher education." The report declared that SUNY is "the most overregulated university in the nation." The commission blamed the university's charter, which...
...First Lady also changed tack, remodeling her public persona. The Reagans still see Sinatra and invite the likes of Dynasty Star Joan Collins to state dinners, but Zipkin and his dandyish ilk have been much less in evidence. The President's wife has devoted more time and effort to earnest, conventionally First Lady-like endeavors...
...former student of Feldman's, checked the sources of the disputed quotes and said that of 100 Abraham footnotes, only six were correct. The rest of the book, he added, contained "mistakes of every possible kind." With this new evidence in hand, Turner and Feldman set out in earnest to expose Abraham's work. They wrote to Catholic University in Washington, where Abraham was under consideration for hiring, and Feldman attached Nocken's findings. The job evaporated. Abraham lost another opportunity at the University of California, Santa Cruz after Feldman intervened...