Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was how the participants in the 1987 Bike-Aid ride ended their nine-week trip. Although many of the 287 people who participated in the rides over the last three summers were not serious cyclists, they rode 80 miles a day as they crossed the country to raise money for grassroots projects to prevent hunger in the United States and abroad...
Within minutes of his election, Mitchell emerged from the party caucus in the historic old Senate chamber of the Capitol to meet with reporters. Quickly turning aside suggestions he would be a partisan fighter, he said, "We hope to cooperate with the new administration to deal with the serious problems and important challenges facing our nation...
Walder said he will meet with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week to discuss whether he will accept the lifetime post here. "Although I would like to stay, there are a lot of serious issues to be worked out with Spence," Walder said...
...CEOs of the big media corporations are almost all white, male, conservative and Republican. Most of the corporations are members of the Fortune 500, and many invest in banking, nuclear power, defense or energy industries. Bagdikian writes that it is "normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarassing publicity and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and governmental policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence...
...promptly and hold budget talks with congressional leaders before his Inauguration; he started Friday by having lunch with House Speaker Jim Wright. But all the while, Bush clung to his conviction, shared by Brady, that the economy could grow its way out of the deficit without new taxes or serious spending cuts. "Our most important priority is to keep our economy growing with low inflation," he said. "We must resist the policies that will impede that effort, such as raising taxes...