Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked why he wanted to climb Everest, Mallory replied with the simple answer, "Because it's there." Though Hillary will always have the distinction of being the first to make it up and down the mountain alive (Hillary and Norgay never said which of the two of them actually got there first), Mallory should be remembered for the importance of his philosophy...
...viewed Everest as a challenge worth taking for challenge's sake alone. In that brief answer, Mallory focused his energy on the job itself--the desire actually to climb, not to have climbed or to have returned victorious, but to climb and so conquer the mountain step by step. The pleasure and the motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed...
...pilot program is designed to answer three questions about overseas factories: what condition the factories are in, what universities can do to improve their conditions, and how universities can effectively improve the lives of factory workers...
...want to be pigeonholed, labeled or defined. The danger in this is that they are so busy not being labeled, defined or pigeonholed, that they don't take the time to think about what they will stand for. For, truth be told, we all will have to answer for ourselves and our decisions sooner or later, and the first step towards forming principles is to state them and debate them...
Moderation has abolished the stating of principles from our country's conversation. The essential questions are no longer asked, or if they are, they receive no answer, only silent shrugs of confusion. What do we stand for? Why are we in Kosovo...