Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earnest courtship of congressional Republicans has resulted in one early, tentative payoff. For once, no one's lips are forming the words "dead on arrival" to describe the President's plan. But they are guarded. "I'm not sure he has the political stroke yet to get done what he knows has to get done," Senate majority leader Trent Lott told TIME. "I know the budget they're sending up here next week will not be as honest and will have more gimmicks in it than he wanted...
...battle began in earnest during the fall presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton headed west and ceremonially conferred monument status on this huge stretch of Utah real estate. Tourists and locals could continue to use the area for hunting, camping and grazing, he said. But he wanted disfiguring activities like mining forbidden...
This weekend Harvard athletic teams are entering the midpoint of their season--a time where each game becomes crucial and standings are watched in earnest. Youth is expected to be matured, kinks ironed out and true potential achieved...
...their concern over being misperceived as color mafiosi that at conference end, a dozen CMG officers gathered in the press suite to downplay their own significance to the assembled media. That the assembled media consisted of a local reporter, a trade journalist and myself proved no deterrent to their earnest onslaught. CMG only forecasts, insisted our briefers; it doesn't dictate; the consumer is the ultimate arbiter...
...patriarch of a small family in the fictitious town of Arlen, Texas, Hank Hill--Judge's new Everyman--is the show's articulate voice and conscience. Unlike Homer, he is no bumbling dreamer but rather a man who takes earnest pride in his life as a father and propane salesman. If the Simpson family remains on a jaunty, fruitless ride to escape the banalities and inconveniences of middle-class life, the Hills--Hank, his wife Peggy and son Bobby--are a grimmer, reality-based lot, who doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less...