Word: earnestness
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...American counterparts to keep the U.S. government from pressing too much. That may have been one reason recently retired Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who had butted against Swiss bank secrecy repeatedly since the 1960s, was not able to make many cases. The federal government is more earnest than ever, he says, but the resolve comes when the locus of tax evasion has already shifted to other havens. "Switzerland is not the No. 1 problem any more. The Caymans is the biggest problem," he says. (See TIME's complete coverage of the 2010 World Economic Forum...
Luckily, Anna's delivery was excited and earnest, so I had a lot to work with. Plus, she wanted her speech to be fun: "I'm not going to be like the guys. They're so serious. I actually care. I'm not going to walk up there with a piece of paper like those idiots. And I timed it so it's 45 seconds. I don't want to be embarrassed." I nodded as if I weren't completely ignoring her last sentence...
...public figures who commands respect and wields influence in India and Pakistan and among ordinary Kashmiris. He has already floated the idea that Kashmiris should be considered as a third party to the talks but has otherwise not objected. If the two countries begin discussing Kashmir in earnest, as Pakistan is demanding, it will be difficult to reach a lasting agreement without the leader's support. Indian Kashmir has been increasingly tense over the past several months, with a growing cohort of young "stone pelters" protesting the presence of Indian security forces. In the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir's capital...
...kindred spirits attempting to invent a hermetic universe for themselves. They invent the terms “otherpeoples” and “Shukoffs” in their very first conversation, referring to the mass of boring, unimaginative humans who surround them. Their conversation continues, full of earnest jargon about “trenches,” “lying low,” and “pandangst,” which is supposed to encode their feeling of deep emotional vulnerability. Clara and the narrator escape concrete thoughts and feelings by inventing these hollow terms, constantly...
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