Word: endeavors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a mood of euphoria mixed with anxiety on the Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered...
Draper is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation whose "principal endeavor continues to be the application of inertial guidance technology to the development of strategic systems for the Air Force and for the Navy..." the annual report states...
Most importantly, this performance escapes parodying its own seriousness. How strange then, after such an accomplishment, to follow up this fragile solemnity with Bugs Bunny and P.D.Q. Bach, as if to undermine the whole endeavor...
...project as a whole was something Fletcher knew he wanted to do, but he never dreamed it would be one he could pursue as an academic endeavor, he says...
Despite these difficulties, roly-poly President Godfrey Binaisa boasts that "the country is making a very spectacular recovery. We are making wonderful progress in all areas of human endeavor." In fact, the country is no more secure than Binaisa's own shaky position as Uganda's second post-Amin Head of State. Since taking over from Yusufu Lule, his ousted predecessor, eight months ago, he has barely survived several no-confidence motions brought by his rivals in the country's interim parliament, the 129-member National Consultative Council. The main reason he has stayed in office seems...