Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plumtree's music, like Anderson's, is not burdened by deep meaning or heavy handed emotions. These music makers instead strive to set free a powerful melody and let it work its magic. Their sophomore production and first full-length record, Mass Teen Fainting, is a blend of potent songs, merging a fifties surf-garage feel with the driving energy of power pop. Their concoction is a Beach-Boys-meets-Shonen-Knife puree, and cocktail leaves the listener with a smile and a tune...
...offering astronomical salaries and exceptional job security. Yet, they should not forget about the millions of underpaid Americans who often facilitate their success. Harvard students should not only insist that the University pay a living wage to all of its employees; when they leave the ivory tower, they should strive to become the kind of managers and employers who value the living standards of their employees more than remaining slavishly devoted to the bottom line...
...understanding of the petition was that it would not force anyone to do anything. The two groups must come to a mutual agreement," said Sullivan. "We should strive to reach an agreement with the landlords, the city, and tenants on a voluntary basis to achieve affordable housing. I was not focusing on the past when I signed the petition but rather saw something to reach for in the future...
...interesting question. "Why," he wondered, "are you Americans so frantic? You're always trying to do something." It was difficult to respond--in part because I wanted to ask why the French seemed so relaxed and even indifferent. There is something in our national character that causes us to strive to be better, to work and improve. Moreover, there's the American Dream, and the notion that, for example, any of us could grow up to be president. The French really don't believe that--their presidents have gone to the same finishing school, the Ecole Nationale Administrative, for most...
Will such religious and social influence be achieved by any of the new, simplified Bibles? The publishers' stated ideal of providing a text suited to the individual needs of each reader repudiates any such ambitions. The Bible must strive for democratic diversity, so the current thinking goes; the day is past when a dominant incarnation of it could, or should, exert a centripetal, unifying force on religious and social discourse...