Word: earnest
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...mobilization to bail out Eastern Europe has begun in earnest. According to MarketWatch, "The World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank issued a joint pledge Friday to provide up to 24.5 billion euros ($31.2 billion) in aid to support Eastern Europe's bank sector." That is almost certainly only the beginning of the process...
...game for both teams, although they have to get through today unscathed. Regardless, another interesting race to watch this weekend is the league Player of the Year award. Big Green star Alex Barnett has won three of the five Player of the Week awards since Ivy play began in earnest. He also leads the Ivies in scoring and is near the top in many other categories. My money...
...underlining of his commitment to health-care reform in his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday and in his budget announcement on Thursday, and his announcement of a health-care summit for next week. "This is a frank and respectful discussion that essentially began in earnest on Monday," says Dr. Nancy Nielsen, president of the AMA. "What we're hearing from him is that there is an urgent need for health-care reform and that we also want to make sure that we get it right when we do those reforms...
...persepctive that so often characterizes the depiction of the fetishized East by a Western gaze. Though there is no denying the symbolic resonance of age-old emblems—the titular cherry blossoms, for instance, or the impressive Mount Fuji—their prevalence trivializes Rudi’s earnest attempt to reconcile his past wrongs with a renewed love for his wife. As generic and exaggerated symbols, their impact wanes by the story’s conclusion.Succumbing to mortality almost as soon as it reaches the peak of its blooming season, the image of the cherry blossom...
Tonight's bombing raid came as the world's media clustered in Colombo to cover what many expected to be the end of a conflict that began in earnest in 1983. The Army contends that it has cornered the LTTE in a shrinking patch of territory around Mullativu on the northeastern coast. With this attack - using a do-it-yourself plane and a couple of bombs - the whole city was plunged into darkness (the power was cut) and fear, as tracer bullets and anti-aircraft fire punctured the sky. With two planes down, this might be the last sortie from...