Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many of your readers are grateful for and enriched by your Essays. But in "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24], you have reached the nadir of human diplomacy and endeavor...
...dealing with them. We cannot, in short, think of the School of Education as simply training functionaries for an ongoing system. We need rather to relate the School bodly to the strangenesses and opportunities of the new world: to encourage it to create new patterns and roles of endeavor, to educate the public and raise the standards of the profession, while holding fast to the tried values of critical humanism that form the core of university life...
Then, to no one's surprise, Lyndon Johnson unveiled a program. Said he: "I have directed a special task force within my Administration to recommend a broad and long-range plan of worldwide educational endeavor." The group will be headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, will include Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner. Though Johnson gave few details, he envisioned stepped-up exchanges of students and teachers and an increased "flow of books and ideas and art, of works of science and imagination." He delicately refrained from quoting the price of his latest...
...mounting crime rate last week found a solution of sorts. A $100,000, 260-page report urged the state to "synthesize a logical and complete functional definition of the system of criminal justice" in order to overcome "the inevitable problems relating to the interfacing of separable areas of endeavor." To do this, of course, state authorities would need an "indication of required quantitative relations between operational effectiveness and dollars expended in the various functional areas" and might do well to use a "taxonomic matrix for organizing and presenting offender characteristics...
...since 1928) and board chairman (since 1954) of Lincoln Electric Co. founded by his brother John in 1895, world's largest manufacturer of arc-welding equipment, who in 1934 instituted a program of employee bonus incentives on the premise that "selfishness is the motivating force of all human endeavor," which was so successful in boosting volume and cutting costs that he was able to sell his products for less than any competitor, while giving his employees almost double the money (an average $13,000 annually) paid elsewhere in the industry; of heart disease; in Cleveland...