Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it came to explanations of the financial disclosure exemption she has claimed as a House member, however, Ferraro was earnest but unpersuasive. Her tax returns report income from Zaccaro's business, and he pays the property taxes on all four of their homes. Yet to claim an exemption, a House member must get no benefit from a spouse's wealth, nor even have "the possibility of an inheritance from the interest." Ferraro's basic argument is that because she and Zaccaro have separate incomes, his wealth and its sources are irrelevant to her congressional performance...
...accusations was dissipated by several disclosures: that he had erased some audiotapes that may have contained conversations with De Lorean; that he at one point asked for a cut of any proceeds from the De Lorean drug bust; and that months before the Government began its sting operation in earnest, Hoffman allegedly told a federal agent, "I'm going to get John De Lorean for you guys...
...romantic, down and dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back...
...Moravian Church,* as "counterrevolutionary." As harassment led to violent encounter, the Sandinistas finally committed what is widely considered a massacre of as many as 50 Indian workers near the town of Leimus in 1981. When the Indians struck back, the Sandinistas began their relocation, and warfare started in earnest...
...ECCENTRIC woman of Brahmin origins, Olive has elevated suffragism to the level of a personal cult. Olive and Basil become enthralled by Verena, an earnest, sweet-looking, if not quite articulate enough character to make plausible her subsequent fame as an orator...