Word: effortful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to make education more affordable for its neediest students, Brown University announced a $5 million increase in scholarship grants yesterday...
...selection is part of a large-scale effort by the department--its Faculty weakened over the past few years by a number of high profile departures--to boister its teaching staff. In addition to New's selection, the department has also hired another professor and five additional junior Faculty members for the upcoming academic year...
...final clubs have existed for at least 100 years--long before much of Harvard or the house system itself was in place. Prior restrictions on guests, as well as recent, stricter policies, do not reflect final club elitism, as has been suggested in The Crimson, but instead a conscious effort to preserve the clubs in an era when issues of legal liability threaten to close them down...
...reproduce seems understandable and justified. It is intended to provide the company with protection similar to that available to developers of hybrids; in most instances, only the first progeny of a hybrid is a marketable crop, and subsequent seed crops do not carry the parents' useful characteristics. Monsanto's effort to protect what is rightfully the company's may help to stimulate further plant research, to the betterment of agriculture and horticulture. TIB SZEGO Lindsay...
...does not tread lightly into HDTV. Just handing over the credit card for a TV that costs $5,499--the price of my Panasonic 56-in. projection set--takes some effort. A set-top box that can tune in the new digital signals adds an extra...