Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cures for an ailing America. His stump speech is a stark sweet-and-sour concoction that warns audiences of inevitable economic decline because of surging foreign competition, yet promises a revitalized America. "I worry about an America where dreams don't come true," he tells Democrats in his earnest style. "Our country has sunk to a low, but we can make it great again...
...alarmed about the nation's slow loss of its competitive edge. But though he remains among the top tier of Democrats, he has had trouble capitalizing on the crisis or convincing undecided voters that he has the heft to handle troubled times. Despite his lengthy legislative scorecard and his earnest doggedness both in Congress and on the campaign trail, he remains a dispassionate figure who has sparked little excitement. On the stump in Iowa, he tells voters that they must choose the person they trust the most. But even as he works to personalize the race with a what...
...search for alcoholism's genetic underpinnings began in earnest in the early 1970s with a simple question: Why does the disease seem to run in families? Dr. Donald Goodwin, chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, set about seeking an answer by studying 133 Danish men who were all adopted as small children and raised by nonalcoholics. Goodwin divided his subjects into two categories: those with nonalcoholic biological parents and those with at least one alcoholic parent. Then he interviewed each of the adopted men in depth and examined health records to see which...
...preservation has been propelled for the past decade by federal tax laws. Developers who rehabilitate historic buildings can get back 20% of their renovation costs in the form of income tax credits, as long as they put the buildings to commercial use. Under the program, which began in earnest in 1981, an estimated $11 billion has been spent to renovate some 17,000 historic buildings in 1,800 cities and towns...
...where the promise of the revolution is depreciating as rapidly as Nicaragua's plummeting currency. Whether the country has been let down by the revolution or, as some would argue, the revolution has been let down by the country, Nicaragua today seems to be a betrayal of all the earnest vows swapped in the sticky July heat of 1979 when Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle was finally toppled...