Word: strive
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...Curriculum, the College has tried to broaden the minds of its students and insure that they emerge with more than highly specialized knowledge. But when these praiseworthy practices are applied to House and social life, they cease to be admirable and become forms of social engineering. While Harvard can strive to offer as diverse and variegated and undergraduate population as possible through its admissions and curriculum, it cannot cross the line into the regions of individual choice and preference to force-feed diverse experiences on its students. Like a well thought-out buffet, there should be something for everyone...
Whitemore's use of soliloquies in a realistic framework brings his competence as a playwright into serious question. The tone and execution of the play strive for realism, but Whitemore undercuts it with the formal monologue--one of the most contrived devices in the dramatist's handbook. Simple reminiscences intended to add dimension to the characters, these solo speeches instead subtract from the play's impact...
...Though it's impossible to be completely apolitical, we strive to be by concentrating on individual cases of human rights violations," Freidman said, adding that HRAI was founded in 1982 on this principle...
...sack of oysters, put some sweet potatoes on the potbelly stove, and put a nice tape on - Willie Nelson, something like that -and then we chop and carve. That's where it's at. It's being happy." Brunet advised not to strive for winning ribbons; rather, he said, strive to please yourself - something he apparently has accomplished. "I say, when I carve a pintail drake, you can set music to it. Everything swings...
...action committee, Heritage is currently the hot shop in the public policy industry. In contrast with the liberal Brookings Institution and conservative American Enterprise Institute, which encourage scholars to produce thoroughgoing reports at their own pace, Heritage expects its researchers to study topical questions, work on tight deadlines and strive to get their results noticed or, better yet, acted upon. New studies are hand-delivered to every Cabinet officer and member of Congress. The names and specialties of 1,500 congressional aides, 700 Executive Branch staffers and 3,000 journalists are stored in Heritage's computer, so that reports...