Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council also debated the merits of broadcasting the meetings of the Cambridge Rent Control Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals on cable television, but postponed action until they could determine the details of such an endeavor and the cost to the city...
...wears a stovepipe hat that makes him look like a character out of Dickens, keeps a flame burning constantly under his 20-gal. pots of rice, soup and beans. The New York City kitchen, which serves as many as 1,000 meals a day, is not his first such endeavor. Beacon, who calls himself the Fire Tender, says he has set up similar "temples" in other cities across the country...
...most notorious American example of professional deformation in the realm of politics--Charles Wilson's "What's good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." He argues that like Wilson, "Brodsky's statement attributes a wildly disproportionate role to his own field of endeavor...
LITERATURE is after all just "a field of endeavor," not at all different from the business world or the journalistic world. Very few people ever read poetry, while a whole lot of people drive cars, ergo General Motors is a more important "field of endeavor" than literature...
...unionization issue was ideal, a chance to help poor workers take on Big Bad Harvard. And, better yet, its not a very time-consuming endeavor. You only have to work on it for an hour or two between classes, while at other times paid staffers work do the dirty work. "It is hard to work on issues like South Africa, which is so far away, when there are things like unionization that are so close to home," one former SASC member quipped...