Word: strived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made in today's editorial must refer not to platform but to private faith. To imply that having religious beliefs as a candidate should "raise concern" among students is to characterize private faith as dangerous and unwanted. To call "values-driven leadership"--something one would hope all candidates would strive to embody--"troubling" due to private faith, which has been completely unmentioned by the candidates themselves, is to stigmatize those who hold to religious beliefs and to prejudge and misrepresent their statements...
...subject to harassment by police until the '50s. McCarthy's attempts to weed homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter his political manipulations. Instead of trying to define and establish a unique and separate culture, gay activists decided to strive for assimilation by attempting to establish a niche in society for homosexuals. Queer groups began fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic material and writings on gay topics through the mail, the lack of legal social spaces in which gay couples...
Latinos in Massachusetts must strive to create an infrastructure. That means electing school committee members, city councilors, state representatives. Starting with a manageable district is critical, one in which a few dedicated volunteers and a larger group of occasional volunteers can have reasonable prospects for success. As compared to issue-related campaigns (e.g. a community campaign to stop an asphalt plant or to educate on air quality and asthma rates in urban children), the infrastructural advantage of a campaign for elective office is that it must be reactivated with frequency and--at least for the successful ones--that...
Sarah's father Larry is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. He takes turns with Ilene, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School, juggling commitments for Sarah and her brother Josh. They strive never to miss a shining moment. But it can be tricky, as Larry makes clear when he describes a hectic day last spring: "On Monday, both Sarah and Josh were playing sports, and Ilene couldn't be there. So I shot out of the office at 4, picked up Josh, took him to his baseball game, then went to Sarah's tennis match, then...
Recognizing the diversity of his audience, Gates urged all members to "learn to find the rough magic of the cultural mix" and ended with the advice: "We must strive to live by Martin Luther King Jr.'s credo, 'None of us is free until all of us are free...