Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop fence-sitting," she said. "Let us strive to be bridge builders...
Some American officials are suggesting that they are prepared to rewrite the rules for Pakistan. Cutting off assistance, says a senior U.S. diplomat, "could be provocative and produce more in the nuclear field than continuing aid would." Now that Pakistan has the Bomb, he argues, the U.S. should strive for "confidence that the program is frozen" and not expanded to build more and bigger weapons...
...WHAT is the alternative? Should we strive for a new Great Society, or just give...
...goes, however, a once horrified supervisor begins to be intrigued by her willful residence in a world of myth and melodrama and soon joins in exotic games -- such as acting out the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, except for the fatal bits. Lettice and her friend strive for what all history- minded tourists seek, the moment when one senses this is what it must have felt like...
...Holt, 49, have built a thriving business in poise and pulchritude. Their company, Guyrex Associates, oversees the Texas and California state franchises of the Miss USA competition as well as dozens of local pageants. Guy and Holt also serve as coaches and consultants to the young women as they strive for loftier titles. Says Holt: "We're selling a total product: glamour and all that goes with...