Word: earnest
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Soon after he took his post at Time in 1993, managing editor James R. Gaines expressed a desire to set up a meeting with Fidel Castro. Last August negotiations between Time and Cuban officials began in earnest, and Time Inc. chairman Reginald K. Brack requested a meeting as well. On Feb. 1, with an agreement near, Gaines and Brack traveled to Havana, accompanied by Time International managing editor Karsten Prager, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, deputy chief of correspondents Richard Hornik and Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth...
Until the welfare debate begins in earnest, however, it is left to the President to move his back away from the wall as best he can. His initial efforts on Foster's behalf were hesitant. To many pro-choice advocates, he was uncomfortably slow in remembering to mention that abortion is in fact a legal procedure; but by the end of the week he was offering a more spirited defense of his nominee. But key support from such Democratic Senators as Edward Kennedy and Patrick Leahy has been noticeably tepid, and Joseph Biden grumped publicly that Clinton should withdraw Foster...
What really brought the four together, however, was a sense of desperation. Something was needed, as Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa put it, ``to save the peace process from collapse.'' If all that was required were the serious talk and earnest pledges of the summiteers, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East would be at hand. But after five hours of discussion, Moussa emerged to read out a predictable communique. It mainly restated their commitment to peace and condemned ``all the outbreaks of bloodshed, terror and violence'' that have brought the negotiations almost to a halt. The one visible...
...Westminster Abbey's memorial window near Poets' Corner next week. The Valentine's Day unveiling of a diamond-shape glass plaque inscribed with his name and dates of birth and death will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the opening night of his comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's pane joins those dedicated to Alexander Pope and Robert Herrick in the window, which was installed last year above the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer and near the Poets' Corner memorials of Lord Byron and D.H. Lawrence. DRESDEN. In 1709 Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and elector...
...minded television dramatist. She is the very real, intensely ambitious Army nurse dismissed from the military in 1992 after revealing that she was a lesbian. Serving in Silence, an upcoming TV movie (Feb. 6, 9 p.m., nbc) based on Cammermeyer's book of the same name, is the fittingly earnest account of her coming out and her subsequent efforts to remain in the Army...