Word: endeavorment
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Granting the value of such a code of behaviour, how is one to put it into practice? One person's isolated resolve to treat his next outing with the opposite sex as a shared endeavor would be instantly misunderstood and ridiculed. Such an action constitutes too violent a rejection of the generally accepted value-system of this society. No matter if the courtesy of paying for the girl turns out to be malignant, no one person can make a dent in the established way of doing things. Imagine going up to the average slick Cliffie intimating that...
...join the great free-enterprise system to become a businessman in the past. Even before a student chooses a career, he is concerned with the legitimacy of his graduate studies. Only recently has management become a teachable science, and even more recently an accepted form of academic endeavor. All problems of undergraduate views of business aside, it is then easy to see why the most academically oriented students, questioning the validity of this upstart graduate discipline, turn to the older, more established courses of graduate study. This problem will persist until scholars are convinced that the study of management...
...Thailand and Laos to keep Ho happy. In a couple of years, we can let him have Korea and Japan; about 1975, Hawaii. Or, we could allow U.S. naval and air forces to place full pressure on North Viet Nam with conventional weapons, forcing Ho to abandon this little endeavor in the South. Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot that we might hurt some civilians, or damage a Russian vessel, or call down world opinion upon ourselves. Oh well, the casualty rates aren't too awfully...
...more. Now a noteworthy and increasing number of Americans are beginning second acts with verve and purpose. Among them are some rather familiar figures: military men, policemen and firemen who reach retirement potential at a relatively early age and apply their knowledge and skill to some new endeavor. They are being joined by a growing number of second-acters who are buoyed by an unprecedented level of savings from good salaries, by the rewards of profit-sharing plans and stock options, by early-retirement programs and by plain guts. They want to do a new thing and they have...
...plan for a Central Business District is not quite so far along though we have already entered the early land-acquisition and construction stage. The Project will be carried on in stages and will endeavor to put some order into the mish-mash of narrow streets which we inherited from our forebears...