Or the 30 or so clumsy though earnest workers?
At least until the 1990s, when the collapse of the state sector began in earnest, workers aspired to be party members because membership gave them power.
ITV 2am TUESDAY Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky, 1973) One of Mazurskys best films, this well-written, clumsily directed, admirably acted anti-marital comedy unfolds in flashback as a randy Californian divorce lawyer (George Segal) wanders around Venice recalling his marriage to earnest social worker Susan Anspach.
Three earnest social workers pay them a visit.
The earnest aid workers, with their laptops, modems, sneakers and T-shirts, all preach the mantra of "building local capacity".
The 1872 Ballot Act changed this with the invention of the "modern" polling station - the church hall with its wooden booths, a pencil on string and piles of ballot papers handed out by earnest election workers.
"You're from everywhere," this friend (an earnest British aid worker who serves as the novel's deus ex machina) tells her.
My new thing now is -- I was in Houston, and a very earnest gang intervention worker came up to me, kind of pleading with me.
The decennial count starts in earnest this week, as 140,000 census workers, deployed out of 150 local offices, begin a street-by-street canvassing operation to verify and update more than 145 million addresses.
But simply ignoring the earnest fortitude of billions of new global workers is no way for this nation to stay rich and competitive.
For 90 minutes, the two-term Alderman Rey Colon (35th Ward) faced two earnest challengers, Nancy Schiavone, a lawyer, and Miguel Sotomayor, a worker at the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, in a tepid debate sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce.
