Word: endeavorment
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...Complicated Endeavor...
...futility of this endeavor is striking. There will always be the idea of our future selves who will look back and smile at the shenanigans of youth, but at what point are we going to rid ourselves of the burden of pleasing them? Do we wait until we’re comfortably settled in our careers? When we have children? Because if we don’t stop the trend of our future nostalgia, we run the risk of never actually getting the chance to sit back, remembering these days as the perfect illusion we constructed. Or, we might never...
Each year thousands of men and women with same-sex attractions make the personal decision to leave homosexuality by means of reparative therapy, ex-gay ministry or group counseling. Their choice is one only they can make. However, there are others who refuse to respect that choice, and endeavor to attack the ex-gay community. Consequently, ex-gays are subject to an increasingly hostile environment where they are reviled or attacked as perpetrators of hate and discrimination simply because they dare to exist...
...based primarily on their achievement in math, for example. And math concentrators here are likely better than any other comparable group in the country. Football players here, however, are likely bested by at least 100 comparable groups in their primary raison d’entrance. Sports are the only endeavor on all of campus where our students pale in comparison to the best of the nation...
...Today igusa is, well, straw. The farmers in and around Kagami ply an anachronistic endeavor propped up for decades by protectionism. When Japan was booming, the government thought it could have it all. Farmers, who traditionally voted for the long-ruling LDP, were shielded from competition from imports; Japan's consumers shouldered ridiculous bills for homegrown farm products. Today, thanks to the weak economy and the wrenching opening up of Japan's markets, tatami prices are half what they were 10 years ago. Farmers can't pay off the loans they were once encouraged to take. "Thirty farmers have committed...