Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dieting in pursuit of our dreams. This is nothing new. We have been on diets before. In fact, I was on a diet for at least 10 hours a day, every day, for months. Every night, around 11 p.m., right after eating about 16 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I went on a diet. And I stayed on that diet religiously until breakfast the next morning. Sometimes I even stayed on it until lunch, especially if I had slept through breakfast...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...
While saying that Harvard admissions policies have amounted to discrimination against Asian-Americans, Glazer also said the pursuit of "balanced" admissions was a worthy pursuit. Harvard gives preference to athletes and children of alumni in its admissions, factors which it concedes lowered Asian-American admission rates to 80 percent that of white applicants during the 1980s...
...leaders of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel have become folk heroes for their ability to escape the relentless pursuit of government security forces. Last week Pablo Escobar Gaviria, 39, a leader of the drug ring that controls 80% of the cocaine entering the U.S., pulled off one of the most impressive getaways. In an operation code named Against the Fortress, some 600 police and army troops raided a ranch 70 miles outside Medellin, but Escobar managed to elude them...
...School biology: At an open meeting of the Law School's public interest advisory committee Wednesday, several students compared their pursuit of public service careers to the tough journey of salmon swimming upstream. But the students got a little carried away with the analogy, and Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley, a member of the committee, said that the students should be wary of comparing themselves to the upstream-bound salmon...