Word: earnest
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...newly published study, The Deindustrialization of America. The scientific revolution of the post-World War II era began in the research labs surrounding Boston and its universities, particularly M.I.T and Harvard. New space-age industries grew up around Boston along Route 128. When the computer age arrived in earnest in the late 1970s, Massachusetts, with an educated but cheap labor pool, was ready. Between 1976 and 1978 alone, 47,000 jobs were generated. Currently, almost 10% of the state's workers, more than twice the national average, are high-tech employees...
...Catholic left, and a Peace Corps mission to Ecuador before landing him in a neighborhood synagogue on New York City's West Side. Cowan, for many years a reporter for the Village Voice, makes no bones about the anxiety and ambivalence he faced after starting to flirt in earnest with his Jewish roofs, and with the possibility of resuming some sort of observant lifestyle. But at the same time he makes clear--with no apologies-the almost mystical drag of his search...
...Earnest Paul Tress #334287 Sugar Land, Texas
...replacement. He is Union Vice President Owen Bieber, 52, director of the U.A.W's General Motors department. Bieber's nomination is subject only to ratification at the U.A.W's convention in May, which is certain. Lobbying among union officers for the nomination began in earnest in September among Bieber, Secretary-Treasurer Raymond Majerus, 58, and Donald Ephlin, 57, also a vice president and the head of the union's Ford department...
...dampness had moistened the ballots, requiring them to be dried out in ovens in Evanston, just north of the city. ("There's no allegation of impropriety here," insisted Cook County Clerk Stanley Kusper Jr. "We've just got a lot of wet ballots.") The count began in earnest on Wednesday, the day, as wags point out, when the real politicking traditionally begins in Chicago. Before anyone could say Richard Daley, the city election board announced it was being hampered by repeated breakdowns of its new computer punch-card system...