Word: endeavor
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...simplistic, though natural, to be skeptical about the motives of folks like Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III in an endeavor like yesterday's conference. Epps and his peers on other campuses conveniently and unavoidably serve as college bad guys, the ones seen engineering "crackdowns" and laying down the law. Especially at big schools, deans are local and often forbidding public figures...
Hence the decision to let the Soviets send Ilyichev back to the negotiating table. Hence also Premier Zhao Ziyang's recent call for a "common endeavor to combat the superpowers' hegemonism," a deliberate use of the plural that lumped the U.S. together with the Soviet Union as a threat against "peace-loving and justice-upholding countries and peoples...
Radiating from Spaceship Earth are pavilions that explore other areas of technological endeavor. The World of Motion (sponsor: General Motors), nested within a wheel-shaped building, is a mostly light-hearted show with 24 Audio-Animatronic scenes depicting such momentous occasions as the invention of the wheel and the first traffic jam. The Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even...
...next time I dissuade my three-year-old from some artistic endeavor because it's messy, I'm going to think of Leah Spielberg making cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker for Steven so he could film the explosion...
...walls of Harvard. Frederick Ausubel, associate professor of Biology and a consultant for the nine-month-old Biotechnica, Inc. says a potential conflict of spirit can occur. "Can one devote all that much time to creative work at a university and at the same time have a major creative endeavor somewhere else?" he asks rhetorically...