Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American consumer usually has a shrewd and speedy reaction to economic change, and right now he appears to be thinking that the bottom of the recession may have passed. It might be a while, however, before he starts consuming in earnest. Said Rudolph Glin, vice president of Milwaukee's Boston Store: "It's like clawing your way up a cliff with your fingernails. It is still tough to sell, but the consumer is motivated to buy if it is an item of real value." The American customer is currently digging out of debt and is very careful about...
...Arcosanti is no hotbed of radicals plotting the downfall of capitalism. Rather, the project has gone the way of the nation: as conservatism and conformity became acceptable on campuses again, earnest and clean-living Outward Bound types began to outnumber the laid-back dopers at the desert construction site. Says Volunteer Terry Kearns: "They told us if we had to smoke dope, they had better never see us do it. It's like ninth grade all over again...
...Carter's years have been a true return to Government by popular will, filtered through the mind and ear of this earnest troubadour of the town meetings and televised press conferences, therein lies a huge and unexpected irony. The people do not like their own political creation...
...oily pelt of the sea, an other kind of sensibility is present. It is very like the world of the French Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck. The gap between Paris and New York has narrowed to less than a decade, and American modernism is about to begin in earnest. -By Robert Hughes
...watching when a neighbor asked if I wanted to be an alternate delegate to the district convention in Waterloo. I delegate said, to 'I the guess so.' " There she substituted for an absent delegate and was elected to the state convention. By then she was politicking in earnest, passing out KYM buttons and placards, and was chosen as one of Iowa's 50 delegates to the national convention. As she explains: "appeal to a lot of special-interest groups - women, blacks and young people...