Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sympathetic. Measured," says Robert Hughes, whom Porterfield persuaded to come to TIME in 1970 over lunch at a London bistro called the Gay Hussar.) And our entire staff recognizes in Porterfield a journalist who embodies the sort of grace, civility and honesty that the rest of us can merely strive for. Yet he would swallow his tie before endorsing such a view...
Sidney Jones, executive director of Asia Watch, a human rights organization, outlined several goals towards which the international community should strive in dealing with Burma. Many of these objectives, she noted, would keep the military regime--the State Law and Order Restoration Committee (SLORC)--from attaining full-fledged legitimacy in the eyes of the world...
Gabay says he wants to strive for a respresentative student body. "A big job of mine is to get the students on this campus active again, and if it inspires people to see their representatives practicing what they advise, then that just makes us more effective," he says...
...clone the offspring of prizewinning cows like his Twinkie, even though she was the American Jersey Cattle Club's top milk producer last year and her calves fetch handsome prices on the auction block. Using cloning to create large numbers of identical calves runs counter to what breeders strive to do. Alberti wants to create cows even better than Twinkie, and the only way to do that is by constantly reshuffling the genetic deck with a fresh supply of genes. Indeed, rather than a major advance in livestock breeding, cloning taken to extremes could prove to be the exact opposite...
...elected, Becze says he will strive for consensus on the narrowly divided city council...