Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another major endeavor of Chinese students relates to the visa problems that many of them face. The overwhelming majority of the 40,000 Chinese students studying in the U.S. are here on so-called "J" visas, which require them to return home on completion of their degrees...
...then he assumed we were going to the 350th together. (The 350th was a formal given by the University to celebrate its 350th year of academic endeavor.) That wasn't the impression I got, but when he called and dropped by every day for the next few days, I became willing to go-after all it was quite an event, and he seemed nice enough...
...love of science, which began at age three when she started tracing the paths of ants in her garden," reads the release, "became an intellectual endeavor when she spent seven years on insect endocrinology projects at Queens College and St. John's University in New York City...
...crises are so numerous that they eventually lose their pull for readers. Jeremy feels inadequate in speech, in school and within his family. His only forte is sports--on the basketball court he feels confident and free. But even that endeavor is thwarted...
There are in short inherent ironies that have fostered a series of unrealistic notions: the emphasis on external appearance undermines emphasis on good dietary habits, just as the desire for immediate results undermines the reality that fitness is a life-time endeavor...