Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animosity of most American Jews long before the 1984 presidential campaign. Moreover, despite Hirschorn's presumptuous opinions, the American Jewish community is not, and never will be, so all-important that bad relations with it can nullify the positive aspects of a political campaign or any other endeavor...
Designer boutiques are the most direct line the designer can set up to the public. There is,probably no other creative endeavor that reaches its audience in such a piecemeal, erratic and subjective way as fashion. A kind of half-frenzied, operational friendliness animates buying sessions, covering-but not consistently concealing-certain inevitable animosities. The buyers think they are being pushed too hard to spend too much. The designers keep a little distance, knowing, at least, that any buyer is capable of the kind of catty commercial aside that was overheard in Miyake's Paris salesroom: "All my Issey...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...
...academic establishment has suffered a crisis of confidence. When the growth stopped, many other things went wrong. We lost some of our best and most dedicated teachers--there wasn't room for them. The culture stopped supporting education: it lost the trusting, confiding attitude towards the educational endeavor that had made that endeavor great and successful for generations. But despite all these factors, those who stayed in teaching during this period, or who were able to start--if they fought successfully against becoming demoralized--have continued to lead privileged lives in the classroom. There, while the content changes...
...House inappropriate. Since South House has, of course, direct historical ties, to Radcliffe College, it seemed reasonable to expect that if and when it gained a proper name, it might well be the name of a Radcliffe graduate, a women who had gained prominence in her own field of endeavor and in her own right. We realize that most women of the generation of Thomas Dudley Cabot would not have had the opportunity to achieve the sort of financial status which would enable them to contribute vast them, but nevertheless we had hoped that the administration of Radcliffe and Harvard...