Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Importance of Being Earnest...
...Importance of Being Earnest...
...very much on the minds of central bankers and finance ministers when they convene in April in Washington at the semiannual meeting of the IMF and World Bank. At a series of closed-door meetings, the world's leading moneymen will tackle the details of the U.S. proposal in earnest. They will probably have little trouble agreeing that debt relief is a worthy goal. After that, nothing will come easy...
...right times and places but rarely attaining much thorny particularity about the people who inhabit them. The plot, such as it is, often seems like an unconscious cartoon of feminist dialectic. Two men stay close to the title character through the years: a pediatrician who is handsome, earnest, dedicated, kind, politically correct from a left-wing perspective and irreversibly gay, and a heterosexual who is grasping, impatient, domineering, shallow, as undependable as quicksilver and, for Heidi, sexually irresistible. This is the there-are-no-men lament reduced to a greeting card. The saving grace is Joan Allen in the title...
...wishes to do justice to the memory of a courageous youth, and to match his fervence for symbolism with action and understanding, it is time that Bush and other government officials begin in earnest the war on drugs. Because, in an all too true sense, the war has already begun...