Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve years in the Senate, Sam Nunn, the earnest Georgia Democrat, has earned a reputation for levelheaded expertise in military issues. Thus his blunt proposal last week that the U.S. withdraw one-third of its troops from Western Europe unless other NATO allies increase their own defense spending disturbed politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Nunn's intent was to strengthen NATO, not rupture it. Said he: "This is not a petition for divorce. This is a petition for the alliance to carry out its vows." But the measure highlighted a growing belief in Washington that, as Nunn...
...summiteering began in earnest upon Reagan's return to London from Wednesday's Normandy ceremonies. Thursday morning, the President held a series of 35-minute bilateral meetings at Winfield House, the U.S. Ambassador's residence, with his other major summit partners. The meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone included a general discussion of cooperation in the event of a Persian Gulf oil crisis. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, the two leaders agreed that "some type of sharing, some type of contingency planning" should ensue. After the meet Regan declared that U.S. interest rates were...
...chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space saga now in the can, MacLachlan, 25, is wondering what effect all the publicity of the Christmas opening will have on him. "I had to believe...
...ghost wranglers, the pair played by Writers Aykroyd and Ramis are sweetly earnest about their calling, and gracious about giving the picture to their co-star Bill Murray. He obviously (and wisely) regards Dr. Peter Venkman as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop fully his patented comic character...
...savior in whom this earnest vision burns is a prosperous Jewish horse trader named Balaban. He buys an old mountaintop hotel, formerly a monastery, near Vienna and issues a prospectus promising horseback riding, swimming, and the painless eradication of embarrassing gestures and ugly accents. And soon the place is filled with aging Jews of both sexes who have become burdens to their assimilated children...