Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play once in a qualifying tournament," Jack corrects. "I won the match, but it wasn't a very serious match...
...didn't want it to get serious, so he never let it get too close," George says...
Last Tuesday after the union won the election by a close margin, Taylor announced that the University might file such a complaint. University officials have not made a final decision since they want to be certain that the charge is legitimate and serious enough to merit holding a recall election, Taylor said...
Faced with the most serious outbreak of labor unrest since placing Poland under martial law more than six years ago, the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski seemed oddly uncertain about how to respond, whether to make strategic concessions or to lower the boom. For a while, the government tried a little of both. As the strikes spread to other major industrial centers and the country's universities last week, authorities continued to agree to wage increases in a few cases, acceded to mediation attempts by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in others -- but always with the explicit warning that...
Something has to be done soon to help working parents care for their children -- and the Federal Government cannot avoid playing a role. With those propositions there is suddenly no longer any serious disagreement. Michael Dukakis says so, and so do Jesse Jackson and, mutedly, George Bush. In Congress, legislation is being pushed not only by liberal Democrats but also by Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who normally cannot be found within miles of any proposal to increase social spending. Most surprising, the Reagan Administration, after seven years of virtually ignoring the problem, is now pulling itself together...