Word: strived
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proverbial tightrope; he has to please his new employers, but still work at assuring the members of the department that he will look out for them. He says the job is a challenge to him, not only because of the University's urban setting, but also because he must strive to improve the morale of the department...
...this trend as a hidden quota system. "I cannot disprove it except by having a bad year," he says, "and I hope we'll never have to prove it that way." Still, some critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly." Dershowitz also alleges that Harvard's system has always given...
...athletic director at De Matha High School in Hyattsville, Md.: "We live in a competitive society. You don't have to win every time, but you have to care about winning. If we don't care, we can become a society of people who don't strive for excellence...
...three of those were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, all of whom put their private lives in open books, Perkins' reputation as a remarkable editor passed beyond publishing circles and made him modestly famous. He did not like it. "An editor," he said repeatedly, "should strive for anonymity...
There are, of course, those who believe otherwise, those who believe a newspaper should tailor itself to its audience, that it should strive for popularity and audience satisfaction above all else. Those people would say that the Summer School audience is different from the "year-round" Crimson readership, and that the paper should adjust accordingly. Those people are, unfortunately, destined to be unsatisfied not only with The Crimson, but with almost any other reputable newspaper...