Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professors still will strive to press onemeaningful thought into many skulls. Here andthere will come that sudden gasp of revelation...
...next morning, the Commander in Chief passed on the lesson to the graduating class at Annapolis. "Ultimately," said Clinton, "the test of leadership is not constant flawlessness. Rather, it is marked by a commitment to continue always to strive for the highest standards, to learn honestly when one falls short and to do the right thing when it happens...
...only operates on the wazoo." To pay for universal health care, he suggests, "wouldn't it be easier if everybody would just examine the person to your left?" Despite its sprung logic, though, Maher's work is still satire, sneakier than Miller's but just as potent. "We will strive," said Miller on his first show, "to be in the vanguard of the movement to irresponsibly blur the line between news and entertainment." Finally, two comedians who actually know the difference...
...Favorite Year was smashed and by the second act I wished I'd had a few drinks before the show myself. an adaptation of the 1982 movie, My Favorite Year's run on Broadway was brief and it is easy to see why. The all-Cabot cast and crew strive valiantly to rise above the material, but despite their enthusiasm, this is a show best enjoyed at less than full mental capacity...
...formation, or angiogenesis, as the process is known? A major factor, scientists believe, is a sudden drop in the cancer cell's production of thrombospondin, a protein that inhibits the growth of new blood vessels. In the normal adult, angiogenesis is not only a rare event, but one cells strive to prevent, save for special circumstances like wound healing. For blood vessels invading joints can cause arthritis, and those invading the retina of the eye can cause blindness. To prevent such damage, cells keep blood vessels at bay by pumping out thrombospondin. At a recent scientific conference, Noel Bouck...