Word: strive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Riboud, Schlumberger has adopted "strive for perfection" as a corporate credo. "If you want to innovate, to change an enterprise or a society," he says, "it takes people willing to do what's not expected." That policy has paid off in the constant technological improvement of Schlumberger's exploration techniques during his tenure, and a jump in the firm's annual profits from $27.1 million to $1 billion...
...bookstore on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Said Chairman Charles Scribner Jr., 62, the great-grandson of the company founder: "The family has run the bookstore almost as long as the book publishing company, and I would be brokenhearted if we were not able to maintain it. We will strive to continue...
...last week will be considered by the majority of the students at Harvard as just another battle between the sexes--but this time between a group of "rabid feminists" and a "bunch of incurable male chauvinists." This pigeon-holing of such an important issue is what we should all strive to prevent. Now that the party is over and the picket line has dispersed, we fear that the Pi Eta will become just another isolated incident. But we cannot, and should not, rest easy, secure in the belief that an injustice has been exposed and the problem solved...
Harvard and other schools are currently in the process of making many such deals with firms, as they strive to modernize and expand their computer facilities. Firms are willing to sell their equipment to universities at low prices in the hope that students will want to buy their products in the future...
Turning to Mr. Lagon's call for "balanced" teaching, it must be seen first and foremost as an assault on academic freedom. In the future, Mr. Lagon would not have professors present opinions and interpretations that they honestly believe are true; instead, they would have to strive for "balance." Of course, "balance" has a certain seductive charm, for it seems inherently fair--but this allure dissipates as soon as one begins seriously to ask what "balance" means on the practical level or who is to judge when it has been achieved...