Word: endeavor
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...Democratic candidate's connections to ACORN are fairly well documented, and the group's field of endeavor - community organizing - makes it a tempting target for GOP strategists. In Chicago in 1992, Obama headed the Project Vote campaign - an organization affiliated with ACORN - which registered 150,000 voters on the city's the south side and helped elect Carol Moseley Braun, the country's first female African-American Senator. As an attorney, Obama worked on the team of lawyers that represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit in which it accused the state of Illinois of violating federal polling laws, and spoke...
...films that were more experimental than the average movie, they proved to be fairly similar to what the audience was used to watching. After all, videos of this length are not entirely foreign; most YouTube clips are little more than one minute in length, and many movie previews endeavor to capture the entire sense of a film in less than a minute. Most films centered on an object or a short series of images. People, when featured, were usually treated as additional objects. Very few of the films featured dialogue, although those that did were memorable. One example popular with...
...home.) For another, it has some of the charm of amateur filmmaking - a belief in itself, in pleasing and educating its core audience. In that sense, Fireproof is like Tyler Perry's psychodramas (also Georgia-based) with Christian themes and a naive vibe. Fireproof was clearly a community endeavor; the end credits thank hundreds of Albany residents for contributing food, locations and moral support...
...passed the country by first time around. Flashback to 1965: The austere socialists who had run the State of Israel since its creation in 1948 had banned television; most music was sung in Hebrew (even imported Broadway show tunes); and most of its lyrics were nationalist exhortations to collective endeavor, struggle and sacrifice - amid the ever-present danger of of war with hostile Arab neighbors. Still, teenagers escaped from the folksy drudgery of their local pop scene by dialing up European radio stations to savor tracks off the new Beatles for Sale album and to participate, vicariously, in the first...
...should that fail, replacing it with an entirely new test.Despite whatever inconvenience it entails, over 750 colleges and universities nationwide have moved to eliminate standardized test scores from consideration in their admission processes. For schools that have sufficient monetary resources and staff support to enable such an endeavor, evaluating each applicant on the basis of the “big picture”—without heavy consideration of standardized testing—is indeed ideal. In a perfect world, all schools would ignore standardized test scores and evaluate each applicant contextually, taking into account their educational history, socioeconomic...