Today it is social enterprise, in which earnest, problem-solving elites devote themselves to social causes, using the ethos and methods of business.
"The president's found that disappointing and frustrating, principally because he believes it's bad public policy for us to not take commonsense steps to address what I think we all acknowledge is a pretty significant problem," Earnest said.
No one was bragging about his accomplishments or being earnest about her problems...
But even though the earnest discussions about problems like corruption, police brutality and the brain drain have attracted only small audiences, it would be difficult for festivalgoers to escape the message.
As the Civil Rights movement began in earnest, America's problems of racism and discrimination had become part of the national conversation".
Meanwhile, Finn's tumbling act continues, as if the umpire keeps sticking a foot out for a laugh: three times he fell after delivery – once as the ball was on its way from the edge to Matt Prior for his second wicket – and now the bowling coach, David Saker, has sorted his work permit, he can try to look at the problem in earnest.
The company has finally begun to address this problem in earnest, through a host of changes rolling out to the App Store in the weeks ahead.
She jumped in with an earnest, articulate reply about problems with drugs, violence and "hopelessness".
More important, unlike any of his recent predecessors, President Clinton has succeeded in getting the American public to address racial problems in earnest.
The unruly extended family at the heart of "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia" might have been the subject of an earnest, hand-wringing social-problem documentary.
