Word: pursuits
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...women in our family had ever had to battle the disease. Since immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, I have enjoyed more opportunity and freedom of choice than either my mother or grandmother. But I now see that I am paying the price for multitasking and the pursuit of the American Dream, with the accompanying stress and ceaseless consumerism. Focusing on the treatments is necessary, but I feel you should have given more emphasis to prevention in your article. Frederica Sagiani, New York City...
...have a huge impact on how the country is run for the next five to ten years or more, says Huang Jing, a China scholar with the Brookings Institute in Washington. Those leaders aligned with Hu broadly back his (so far unsuccessful) attempts to slow the country's obsessive pursuit of growth at all costs, engineer a soft landing for the overheated economy and ensure that the hundreds of millions of Chinese left behind by the extraordinary boom of the last two decades aren't permanently marginalized. Aligned against them is a group of leaders (often the children of senior...
...idea of ‘metropolis’ being a Greek paradigm—I’m making Grecian-inspired clothing with rigidly structured aspects to echo urban form,” she says. The bear smiles glassily, ignorant that it will be sacrificed in the pursuit of fashion. The next morning, with less than four hours to go before the noon deadline, Hays sits calmly in Quincy dining hall. Her outfit is still two-dimensional—no more than a couple of rough sketches—but she is unconcerned. There is not a word...
...family, and also a lot of balancing of sensitivities and responsibility in telling the story.”Nevertheless, Penn insisted that the life of Christopher McCandless, the film’s protagonist, make it to the big screen, saying that audiences needed to witness McCandless’s pursuit of a meaningful life beyond the conventions of society. “There are those who will look at this as a spoiled rich kid who ought not have to put himself and his family’s emotions in peril,” said Penn...
...SHOULD TRY STANDUP”In part, the level of polish some of these novice comedians display is doubtlessly attributable to the collaborative workshopping of routines—a vital part of HCSUCS.“Stand-up can be an isolating, solitary pursuit,” says Petri. “You usually come up with things you think are funny, you go and do your set, and if you people think you’re funny, you know you’ve got some good material. If not, you walk off with your tail between your legs...