Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, they share some mutual friends but are not "joined at hip," a Josh jokes. "We have separate toothbrushes and everything." The two live in Pforzheimer House, so happy together . "Josh is one of the most supportive people that I know. He really makes an effort to understand me," says Jeff. Josh adds, "We are content. Our life here is just awesome...
...will continue in our effort to balance our fiduciary responsibilities to our students and their families with our interest in promoting standards for good wages, benefits and employment opportunities for trades and service employees and to be fair to all concerns," Roberts wrote...
Hanawa is indeed struggling over what should be the most drastic restructuring effort in Japanese corporate history. So far he has off-loaded a few subsidiaries (leasing and advertising), banned corporate entertainment and sold the company's 15-story headquarters on Tokyo's glitzy Ginza. In a more dramatic gesture two weeks ago, Nissan Diesel, the group's commercial-truck division, announced it was closing a plant in Gunma, north of Tokyo, and eliminating 3,000 jobs in the process--a radical move...
...effort to show good faith, DiCaprio has issued spin-control statements, done photo ops with Buddhist monks and praised the quality of Thai cuisine. Still, the controversy rages on. Daily tabloids--yes, they have them in Thailand too--print reports that he's got his female co-star pregnant (although amused, she denies it), that he's been rude to young fans and that he's so paranoid about being poisoned that he's hired food tasters. "This is something I probably have to get used to--lies culminating in something much more hysterical and out of hand," he says...
...tiny, crabbed, tear-jerking gestures of guyish intimacy: the game of catch, the hand on the shoulder, the locker room's dopey, he-really-likes-you insults. But no pats on the butt! One of the most curious things I've noticed about male weepies is that--in an effort to diffuse even the suggestion of homoeroticism?--they tend to lack sex of any sort. But who needs that old thing when you've got Dad, a ball and a mitt...