Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas) has all but decided to resign, friends said yesterday, but he remained torn over details of his leaving and insisted he had "done no serious wrong" despite numerous ethics allegations...
...statement, he said, "There is no deal now. There will be no deal in the future....I earnestly believe that I have committed no serious wrong in the conduct of my official duties or of my private affairs...
...check. Since May 1988, the prime rate that banks charge major corporate customers has climbed from 8.5% to 11.5% and fixed rates on home mortgages have risen from about 10% to 11.5%. Yet while the tight money has clobbered housing and other big-ticket items, inflation poses a serious threat. If Greenspan vigorously pushes interest rates higher to combat that threat, he risks a recession; if he tries to ease up just enough to permit the economy to make a soft landing, he risks letting inflation get out of control...
Everyone can agree, though, that a serious solution to the problem of plastic waste is going to be expensive. Companies are spending about $20 million a year in researching and advertising plastic recycling, an investment that will surely increase in the next few years. It will be a price well worth paying if it prevents America's refuse problem from getting worse...
...breach those things? There is a very, very serious problem of education and leadership. But we don't have the structure for the education we need. Nobody has done it. Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form...