Word: endeavor
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Dispatching gunboats. Sending in the Marines. The projection of American power once seemed so straightforward. And yet in recent years it has presented more and more of a dilemma for a superpower whose every military endeavor elicits endless review and frequently querulous recriminations at home and abroad. By reaffirming the U.S. commitment to keep its Marines in Lebanon, and by sending troops to a minuscule island in the eastern Caribbean, the Reagan Administration last week attempted to reassert the global role of American military might. "This may be a turning point in history," Secretary of State George Shultz told...
...soldier, I realized there were lots of other parts to life." He would have had to retire from the Army, at his pace, after 35 years of service, which would have made him 56-possibly too old, he felt, to embark fresh on a new line of endeavor but too young in his view to drop out of an active working life...
...council's sub-committee structure and relatively strict attendance policy made council membership at least a two-meeting, six-hour-per-week endeavor. For the students serving on the council's grants-giving committee, typical work weeks often included five to 10 additional hours. And, like a small number of students, Council Treasurer Peter N. Smith '83 found serving on the Undergraduate Council practically a full-time job: a 30 hour-per-week commitment...
Photographs, with their immediacy and verisimilitude, are the usual means of illustrating a news story and are a compelling part of TIME'S content every week. But for some stories, on the arcane complexities of arms control or international economics, for instance, or the abstractions of intellectual endeavor and emotional response, photography can seem too realistic, too specific to reflect and enhance the subject's nuances. For these stories, the editors often turn to the art world to solicit original work, including drawings, paintings, collages and prints, that can better evoke the meaning of the text. The Essay...
From kindergarten onward, students are off on a marathon of constant learning that takes them over a series of examination hurdles, the last of which determines admission to college and in effect a career. Individuals are driven, but academic achievement is a group endeavor. Everyone is expected to learn, and everybody does. "The teacher works to elevate the level of achievement of the class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought...