Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifeless phrases of Marx. The sip of individual initiative permitted in recent years is nurturing a taste for more personal freedoms, not so much for U.S.-style democracy or the overthrow of the regime as for a vague longing to choose things for oneself, profit from one's own effort, speak one's own mind. "Before, it was either the party or this." Gliceria Cabrera, 57, is firm: "From now on we can say that...
...what might have been an effort to blunt charges of both favoritism and publicity seeking, NASA used the same occasion to announce that Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan, a backup for Christa McAuliffe on the doomed Challenger mission, would be assigned to a flight as well. That did not satisfy all naysayers, however, and their criticism was not completely unfounded. Glenn is hardly the only older pilot the agency had on hand. Story Musgrave, a six-time shuttle astronaut, retired from the astronaut corps in 1996 at age 61 when NASA told him he was too old to fly. John Young...
...effort to reduce his expenses, Eighner, a gentle, articulate man with a soft South Texas accent who is severely overweight and afflicted with phlebitis, migraines and arthritis, moved with his companion an hour south, to San Antonio, Texas, early last year. There, he took an apartment for $425 a month and taught a few classes in writing. He says his return to the streets in October came after an expected book royalty failed to arrive in September, and from a "miscalculation" that he would get a couple of teaching jobs. "People have said that I do nothing until things...
...Jersey's decision to allow gay couples to adopt jointly [NATION, Dec. 29-Jan. 5] was called "another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda" by a spokesman for the Christian Coalition. The real agenda of proud adoptive papas Jon Holden and Michael Galluccio is to provide two-year-old Adam with a loving home--exactly what the dedicated couple have been doing as foster parents since Adam was a cocaine-addicted infant. What could be more Christian than that? How odd that in 1997 the religious right insists that the Ozzie and Harriet family of the 1950s...
...says he made an effort not to prevent students from expressing their opinions in print...