Word: strived
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tyrone Guthrie, who inspired the founding of the Minneapolis theater named for him and served as its first artistic director, was a man of imposing stature and equally imposing ideals. His very first production, Hamlet, in 1963, gave the theater its credo-to strive for excellence in the classics. His immediate successors, Douglas Campbell and Michael Langham, also British, helped to make the Guthrie a kind of flagship of the U.S. regional theater movement. In recent years that image has been tarnished, but the choice of Liviu Ciulei (pronounced Leave-you Chew-lay) promises to burnish it again. A Rumanian...
Over the next three years. Harvard prepared three more affirmative action plans, each of which was subsequently rejected because it failed to conform to federal hiring plan guidelines. In 1974, the University finally negotiated a plan which proved acceptable to the federal government and began to strive for affirmative action targets. Its success has been limited at best...
...Coop and its people always strive to maintain the best possible service to customers and will welcome any constructive suggestions consistent with that objective. James A. Argeros, Coop General Manager
Your observation is premature. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I plan to introduce legislation that will ban "Saturday night specials." The bill will strive to take these guns off the market. These weapons have absolutely no purpose other than to kill or maim human beings...
...captain who besieges a city," said Machiavelli, "should strive by every means in his power to relieve the besieged of the pressure of necessity, and thus diminish the obstinacy of their defense. He should promise them a full pardon if they fear punishment, and if they are apprehensive for their liberties, he should assure them that he is not the enemy of the public good, but only of a few ambitious persons in the city who oppose it." Machiavelli would have been much pleased by Brezhnev's speech. It singled out the ambitious "enemies," and was rich in references...