Word: effort
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This increase in meal-plan flexibility was an effort, in Mayer's words, to "understand the reality of how busy students' lives are." Such an understanding is essential to providing a dining service that puts students' interests first...
...part of the RSI prevention effort, UHS created an RSI mousepad which describes proper typing posture and stretches to avoid strain on the upper extremities, Coley says...
...Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair is utterly pragmatic. If it works, it's good, no matter whose idea it was. Blair has made no effort at disassembling the many reforms instituted by Thatcher and denounced at the time by Labour. So state industries remain privatized, unions are still reduced in power, businesses deregulated, and government spending held in check. That stance irritates Conservatives, who feel Blair is getting the credit they deserve. Blair, grumped...
Members of the class of 1998: In an effort to alter history, I would like to give you students a commencement speech that is both memorable and useful. It consists of a list of jobs that are readily available to young college graduates, but are rarely, if ever, considered to be within their reach. The mistake made by most of you is that you aim too low--assistants to administrative assistants and the like--whereas the positions I am about to describe are not only exalted and high paying; they also require little or no work, experience, training or knowledge...
Drug Czar. A most enjoyable and relaxing job, it has the added distinction of being the only government post named for a Russian. Its best feature is that while it requires no effort, it also demands no successes. As drug czar all you need to do is claim, every few months, that you are eradicating the nation's drug problem. Everyone will understand that you're kidding. The person who accomplished the least in this position, and was therefore the most successful, was William Bennett, who was equally successful as Secretary of Education, an office that he recommended be abolished...