Word: earnest
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...funds before, but never so many," says Erick Kanter, vice president of the Investment Company Institute, a money-fund trade group. "Managers need time to plot their investment strategies." The steep growth of mutual funds, which reached a record value of $1.7 trillion last year (see chart), began in earnest in 1989. As interest rates began dropping, profit-hungry investors moved away from low yielding certificates of deposit and treasury bonds to where the action is. Most of the enormous outflow wound up in professionally managed pools of securities, where annual returns of 25% or more are not uncommon...
...journey through central New York now continues in earnest tonight against Colgate and Tomassoni knows his team can't get away with this kind of effort against the Red Raiders...
That the council gets little respect is by now a tired fact. Earnest plans for improved public relations--such as the appointment of a student press liaison--haven't helped to keep the council out of the negative spotlight...
...answered no. She was then summoned to Washington. In separate meetings on Jan. 29 with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and President Clinton, the illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records by overnight express to Washington, at which point Administration lawyers say they learned about the baby-sitter. They feared that while her hiring in 1986 was legal, it might pose problems during the confirmation hearings. The information was passed to Nussbaum, who asked Wood...
Another conflict could begin in earnest this week, when Powell is expected to submit to the Secretary of Defense and Congress a report on restructuring the armed services. Its innocuous-sounding subject, "Roles and Missions," is a euphemism for one of the Pentagon's most contentious issues: how to eliminate duplicate capabilities among the service branches. That involves combustible questions like whether to maintain the separate air forces of the Marines and the Navy...