Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was. They were the recorded history of his most consuming and urgent adult endeavor up until he ran for President. From the profit column Carter got the message that he could go forth to serve the country. The experience is about as old as being a born-again Christian, though perhaps not so lofty. But it makes no more sense to try to purge Carter's soul of the free-enterprise spirit than to try to sway him from his religious convictions...
...protest groups see the conference as more than an academic endeavor. Ron L. Davis '77, chairman of HRCAR, says the organization "is protesting any efforts at the conference to protest U.S. business interests in the apartheid system...
Even more importantly, the developing nations, in the long run, need to achieve self-reliance. There should be a world-wide endeavor to develop better farming methods for the third world. Representative Udall remarked that in 1947, 45 per cent of the federally budgeted research went for agricultural research. In 1975, only 1.5 per cent went for agricultural research. And there are numerous possibilities of ways to increase food production. Ways of increasing the productivity of the land need to be investigated. The desert can be made to bloom. The failure of the Green Revolution was due in large part...
...cooling it. Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser, who chairs the congressional ad hoc human rights group, believes that in the long run the rights issue will have to be dealt with on a "quieter level." He urges a distinction between "trying to influence other countries, [which will mean] some fruitless endeavor and may get us in all sorts of trouble," and being "just prepared to say where we stand." Carter referred to the difficult balancing act between these two positions during a courtesy call at the Department of State. Said he: "I've got to be careful not to make...
...whirled and strutted her way flawlessly through a string of numbers. "When you're out there, you're sweating real sweat, you're busting your ass, and the people know that," she said jubilantly after a standing ovation. "Dancing is the most honored sweat-making theatrical endeavor there...