Word: earnestly
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...review committee is, as far as I can tell, rational and earnest and genuinely interested in providing us with a liberal arts education. I was skeptical at the beginning about the administration's power over the Core and about students' role on the review committee. Some professors and students have asked me if the committee has some sort of political agenda, if it favors the sciences over the humanities. But contrary to these suspicions, I have not noticed any bias in committee meetings...
...discrepancy appears to arise because the administration is evaluating data from a period, 1988-94, that extends before the time when budget-cutting in the FAS began in earnest in 1991. Also, the Human Resources analysis measures only a subclass of exempt staff. Complete data were unavailable at press time...
...Faculty's scrutiny of the central administration's finances began in earnest following objections to the 1994 decision to reduce faculty benefits...
...desk of Dr. Ossorio, who again denied coverage. The deMeurerses, committed now to getting the transplant by any means necessary, launched a two-pronged attack: they authorized Hiepler to pursue an injunction to compel Health Net to pay for the treatment: and they began fund raising in earnest. Christy's sister organized a formal dinner in Boulder, Colorado; friends and colleagues arranged a school talent show. The deMeurerses' daughter Michelle, then eight years old, took a piece of loose-leaf paper and with shaky precision wrote her own advertisement for a yard sale. The sign said, MONEY GOES...
First maximalists, then minimalists, have dominated biblical archaeology at one time or another. For early explorers, who began visiting the Holy Land in earnest in the middle of the last century, the Bible was - well, their Bible. The first serious researcher was Edward Robinson, an orientalist at New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In 1837 and 1852 he journeyed to Palestine and identified hundreds of ancient sites by questioning Arabs, who had preserved the traditional names for centuries. Robinson pinpointed Masada. He found a monumental arch supporting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. "He did more than anybody before...