Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Harvard should be able to throw with ease against the Rams, the Crimson will strive for a balanced offensive attack...
What helps? Social workers and attorneys who strive to understand. Lawmakers who consider the needs of this population. And support groups, like GAP and those run by New York's department for the aging, that offer resources and reduce isolation. Vickie Corbett started her own group in Rocky Mountain, N.C., for that reason. "Honest to goodness, it saved my life," she says...
...easy to forget that a great deal of what we know about the world derives from our exposure to the printed word. Journalists must strive to give us an impression of the world that comports with reality as nearly as possible. They should resist the urge to gild news articles with statements of non-existent, or at least non-apparent, popular consensus...
...never quite certain what to do with films like American Beauty--the ones that strive to reach beyond the grasp of understanding, the ones that confound. They are difficult and impressive but almost always flawed. Genre movies and silly Hollywood "products" are easy: you always know what you are going to get when you hand over your two bits and your two hours. There is a deep satisfaction in getting exactly what you pay for: a quick roller-coaster, or a good cry, or the fantasy of another life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow; some...
...continually strive to offer the best educational experience that we can, and what defines 'best' is much more subtle than the fixed (and necessarily arbitrary) weights given...to the many factors that contribute to that experience," Knowles wrote...