Word: effortfully
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...flung places. "I hate traveling and explorers" is the first line of Tristes Tropiques, his classic 1955 account of his years in Brazil and other locales. Instead, his position as one of the greatest figures in anthropology, and as a giant in postwar intellectual life generally, rests upon his effort to draw from anthropology a larger philosophy of human cultures...
...Gore's excellent lessons--why biofuel isn't as environmentally friendly as you'd think; why large-scale, sustainable changes won't occur until financial markets take climate costs into account--are presented as tedious lectures. As with flossing every day or eating healthier foods, Americans should make an effort to understand and solve the climate crisis. But a whole chapter about wind turbines? Maybe we'll just wait for the movie...
...always the risk that TFs and professors would simply use this opportunity to move the grading scale up and give out more A-pluses and As. Instituting A-pluses will be ineffective if it is not accompanied by grading discipline on the part of course leaders. However, this effort, to actually preserve the way they grade, seems easier than any other method of grade differentiation. In any case, something must be done, because, eight years after The Boston Globe declared our grading system the “laughingstock of the Ivy League,” we haven?...
...will ask it again and again and he will be persistent to the point of annoyance,” Khandelwal said. “He is not the type of person to say ‘I tried and it didn’t work—good effort George’ and pat himself on the back...
Pankratz said that the campaign decided not to participate in the presidential debates—which some feel would have increased the ticket’s credibility—as a deliberate effort to highlight the forum’s failure to stimulate original dialogue and to showcase differences amongst the tickets...