Word: effort
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...Renaissance literature, and he is responsible for too many other activities to be reasonably expected to devote adequate attention to the scores of candidates every year who seek tenure in fields unrelated to his own. The responsibility of tenure decisions should be delegated to officials who can devote greater effort and expertise and who will be held accountable for their rulings. Otherwise, the department might as well have the final...
...makes sense that just a year after his unsuccessful (and not for lack of effort) attempt to unscrew his coach's head, Latrell Sprewell showed up for his first day as a New York Knick to applause far louder than team and union leader Patrick Ewing got. And now Sprewell, who is leading his bottom-seeded team in an unprecedented run toward the NBA finals, symbolizes the entire league. After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv...
...virus is cosmopolitan; in more recent times, stupidity infected the Chinese effort to bribe a sitting Democratic President with $300,000--the equivalent of entering the most expensive restaurant in New York and slipping the maitre d' a quarter for a good table...
...could try to make the contrarian argument that the ghettoization of crude male programming on cable television represents some triumph for feminism, however minuscule. But what the trend really signals is a feverish effort on the part of cable enterprises to reach a segment of the population not yet served by its own self-identifying slice of not-very-good television entertainment...
...vinyl and bubble gum; in Hudson, Ohio. As a young researcher for B.F. Goodrich, he turned a little-known chemical called polyvinyl chloride into a flexible, functional material. And as the U.S. was on the verge of depleting its natural rubber supply during World War II, he led the effort to produce a viable synthetic...