Word: earnestly
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...their courage in actually raising their concerns to Harvard officials. Parents should feel that the College is open to their questions and opinions, no matter whether they are adulatory or critical. The College's exclusionary response to the PSLM parents will only undermine the likelihood of earnest dialogue occurring in the future...
...declining 20%. The S&P is close; it's off 19.2%. So the bear may be on the books by the time you read this. But it really doesn't matter because the torture started 14 months ago when the Dow (down 10.7%) peaked, and it began in earnest with last spring's meltdown of the NASDAQ (down 58.1%), taking with it the Internet mystique and those cocksure techies and blowhard analysts...
...dealer's father Horacio asked Rodham to work on the clemency application. Rodham, a former public defender in Florida, was reluctant at first, but finally agreed. The elder Vignali, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman, had some sense of politics. He contributed generously to politicians in both parties, beginning in earnest in 1994 shortly before his son was to stand trial on conspiracy and cocaine-distribution charges. Prosecutors said the son deserved no quarter and expressed no remorse. Carlos was a key financier of a drug ring that transported about 800 lbs. of cocaine from L.A. to Minnesota in the early...
...each time, because I'd just throw them back into the prop bag." None of the trio have much recognition, or extensive resumes, outside the sci-fi series. "And then," Braidwood gamely offers, "there's the ugly factor." ("The unconventionally good-looking factor," volunteers Harwood, 37, who plays the earnest Gunman John Fitzgerald Byers...
...makes the book engaging is the diversity of material--from the race riots in Watts to the war in the Balkans--and the deft sketches of the characters he meets along the way. Though lacking in Dean Acheson's wicked wit or Henry Kissinger's grand concepts, Christopher's earnest approach has its charms...