Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Choate's latest book, Agents of Influence (Knopf; $22.95), an impassioned, sometimes shrill, but always well-documented expose of Japan's lobbying muscle in Washington, will not be published for two weeks. But already the bearded and earnest economist is becoming the most divisive figure in Washington since Robert Bork. For Choate, in his book, identifies dozens of former top U.S. officials and politicians (such as Elliot Richardson, Stuart Eizenstat and Charles Manatt) whose firms represent Japanese clients, and he raises serious questions about the ethics of that practice...
...dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing video postcards from soldiers newly arrived in the gulf, grinning and sweating and reassuring Mom. Said a soldier, cheerful and earnest: "We're here fighting for America and our way of life. Airborne!" Will Bob Hope be in Riyadh for Christmas? ("Hey, guys, I wanna tell ya, that gal's veil sure didn't leave much to the imagination...
...loose madras shirt, khaki pants and soft-soled walking shoes, Lawton Chiles looks more like a vacationing tourist than a candidate for Governor of Florida. His campaign speeches are rambling mixtures of anecdote and issue, delivered in the disarmingly earnest tone of an idealistic outsider. And like an outsider he rails against the corrupting influence of big money on politics. "We have a chance to show that a campaign doesn't have to be about who can put $15 million in the bank and who can hire the best negative advertising firm," he declares. "We want to show that people...
...grand-jury testimony, as well as by politicians and prosecutors hungry for scapegoats. "The U.S. Attorney has explained to us that Eastern is being used to send a message to the airline industry," complains Eastern spokesman James Ashlock. But critics of Eastern ask why, if the airline is earnest, it has failed to discipline any of the nine men named in the indictment, seven of whom were still employed as of last week...
This quality of earnest effort has been Bush's long suit. He may not always know what to do, and he may never know how to say what he knows. But once he resolves to do something, he plugs away...