Word: endeavor
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...According to Iversen, another possible explanation for the gender gap is “statistical discrimination.” Employee training can be an expensive endeavor, and companies are fearful that female workers will take leaves of absence for maternity and child-rearing after the training process is over. That might make companies more wary of hiring women. “Controlling for career choices, I believe most of the gender difference in pay is due to statistical discrimination,” Iversen wrote in an e-mail...
...question for us to disagree on this issue with our... soldiers," he said. He also indicated he would not seek the U.S.'s approval, which has opposed Turkish intervention in Iraq. "Turkey doesn't require permission from any country. Other nations should in fact support us in this endeavor," he said...
...Yale, for example, the number of medical faculty and affiliates is slightly more than 3,000. There, faculty members may be allowed to continue with basic research if “the likelihood of any distortion of the research endeavor is minimal,” according to the school’s official guidelines...
...opening night film at a black-tie ceremony later this evening. He'll be there with his star, Norah Jones, the pop singer making her acting debut in his first American movie - a very mixed bag, with some fine scenes and characters to enliven a mostly disappointing endeavor...
...However, amidst the explosion that occurred over e-mail lists pertaining to the efficacy of the hunger strike, I realized just how polarizing the entire endeavor has become. And that’s a shame, because it didn’t have to go this...