Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action raised concern that the White House is not serious about dealing with the greenhouse threat. And the pressure on Bush increased when Britain called for rapid drafting of an international treaty to address global warming. Finally on Thursday, even as the President was busy reacting to the crisis in Panama, the White House sent a special cable to the U.S. delegation attending a U.N.-sponsored environment meeting in Geneva. The cable, signed by chief of staff John Sununu, directed the American representatives to invite the other participating nations to a global-warming workshop in Washington this fall. Said Sununu...
...Whenever students are alive and alert and sober, and sane and serious, you drive America forward. Whenever students turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short-term pleasures without long-term failures, it slows down the machinery, slows down the quest for justice and for peace...
Nevertheless, Outlook is a very serious enterprise by an intellectually engaged group of Harvard students. There are numerous areas of Black American life requiring serious attention from Harvard Black students. The poor reading, writing and math performance of Black public school students in inner cities cries out for tutorial assistance from Black college students (and from white, Asian, and Hispanic students too.) Such a program, in order to be effective, will have to sustained over the next 20 years perhaps...
Black students now mesmerized by Black fraternities should turn to this much more serious enterprise--an enterprise that will enable them, in Rev. Jackson's words, to become "alive and alert and sober...sane and serious." This and similar activity focussed not on Black students' bourgeois pretensions but on crises smothering the Black poor will ensure that Black students will not "turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short term pleasures without long-term failures..." Connecting themselves with an ethnic uplift strategy focussed on the Black poor will prepare Black students "to drive America forward...
...think [the layoff] is going to have a positive effect," Joslin said. "The energy level is going to be so high. People have been serious about running and keeping fit. Everyone is so geared...