"Some of the really loyal members know this is a serious enterprise put out of love and loyalty -hardly eccentricity."

As in the "Madam Butterfly" I saw, this was a serious and sober-minded enterprise.

The federation looks like a serious enterprise.

Both works also veer unexpectedly and ineffectually into farce in the middle of otherwise serious enterprises.

Now only Wilco can still claim a clearly bright future, and Golden Smog has become a more serious enterprise.

But liberal arts professors saw the arts and sciences as the foundation of any serious academic enterprise.

"Television news was a serious enterprise once," he said recently, looking up through wire-rim glasses from a cluttered desk before air time.

This was not the way a captain should behave at the beginning of a serious enterprise.

This is a serious enterprise, with profound future possibilities.

The monthly's first issue, with ads covering 13 of its 24 pages, shows the magazine to be a serious journalistic enterprise.