Word: endeavored
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...drug cartels--they know that the bulk of the crop goes not toward its traditional uses as an anesthetic and a salubrious chew but into making the illegal drug. In a recent speech on Morales' home turf, Ambassador Rocha blasted the "lie that coca cultivation is an innocent endeavor to the world." The cocaleros' probity is debatable, but while Morales is chewing up Bolivian politics, their clout is unquestionable...
...helped a teenage Sacagawea give birth inside a wintry fort, and before she repaid him a thousand times over by arranging with her Shoshone kinsmen for the expedition's passage over the Rockies, Lewis drew his sword against the Teton Sioux as they strung their bows. The whole grand endeavor might have ended right there, in the present Pierre, S.D. Had the Indians known what was coming in the years ahead, they might have wished...
Looking back, the Sioux had it right. Jefferson had told Lewis to inform "those through whose country you will pass" that "henceforth we become their fathers and friends, and that we shall endeavor that they shall have no cause to lament the change." But whites brought diseases that killed as many as 90% of some tribes' members. Most of the tribes Lewis and Clark encountered were forced off the rivers that sustained their commerce and culture and herded onto reservations with poor soil. Today a third of Native Americans live below the poverty line, and half are unemployed...
...think it’s great that at her age she has taken up this endeavor and published this book,” Brandt says, “and I think it’s something she really cares about and loves...
...nice marbled steak, for example, dramatically increases the concentration of heterocyclic amines--compounds that under laboratory conditions cause the kind of genetic damage that leads to cancer. No one has proved, however, that eating grilled steaks increases your chances of getting cancer. (Nor is anyone likely to try; the endeavor would be too difficult.) You would expect that after millions of years of eating meat, our bodies might have evolved a few mechanisms for getting rid of the carcinogens in burned flesh. But if you're worried about carcinogens, you can reduce your consumption by marinating meat before grilling...