Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community and the Corporation. As Bok said at the time, "I look to the Advisory Committee as a link with different interested segments who can develop useful information and advice on forthcoming shareholder resolutions and other important issues of shareholder "responsibility." The ACSR began this task in earnest, investigating a wide range of ethical issues. ACSR members have traditionally spent much of their time writing to companies to inquire about their business practices, and sounding out interested individuals and organizations about their opinions of various companies...
...Terms like conformity recur. The problems of youth violence recall the American Blackboard Jungle. But some of the behavior seems essentially innocent. If Japan is afflicted by its new worries, it remains an extraordinarily successful society by almost every measure. The social muscle tone is firm, the civic climate earnest and naive. If it is true that the Japanese are somehow spiritually located now in the American '50s, are they doomed to endure the sequel, the cultural turmoil that arrived in the American '60s? The Japanese are conscious of the possibility. When they look at what America and Western Europe...
...most of the city's 18% Hispanic vote, carrying some heavily Hispanic and blue-collar precincts by as much as 9 to 1. More important, he deftly built a broad coalition, largely of political outsiders, that included Asians, blacks, young white professionals, women, environmentalists and labor groups. Although earnest and nearly humorless, Peña showed a warmth and directness that excited crowds. He also took strong stands on issues ranging from an antidiscrimination law for gays to a promise to try to bring major league baseball to Denver...
...deaths hit fellow reporters hard. Cross was young and earnest, and Torgerson was a popular veteran, married to another member of the Central America press corps, Lynda Schuster of the Wall Street Journal. Torgerson, a North Carolina native, had been a newsman since his teens; his foreign assignments included Nairobi and Jerusalem. Renowned for quick wit and warmth, he was unflappable; when a plane he was aboard had a harrowing landing last year, Torgerson buried any fears he may have had in a hearty laugh. Cross, a Kansan who worked in Central America for years under the pseudonym R. Cruz...
When it departs from form, the wedding becomes a psychodrama and what the counterculture called a happening. Its symbolism grows promiscuous. Sometimes the emphasis is political rather than romantic. Earnest couples are known to billboard their environmental interests in the vows so that, say, vigilance against dioxin and acid rain may become part of the conjugal agenda. Such messages turn the wedding into a paid political message or else something like a professional tennis player's shirt, pasted here and there with the logos of products he is paid to advertise...