Word: strived
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...parents may still be alive but were separated from their children during the chaos of the flood. "For every story about an orphan," says Paul Deveril, a UNICEF project officer in India, "there's also a story about a parent searching for their child." Then, too, child-welfare experts strive to place orphans in new homes within their extended families and communities. "The children have been through a massive shock," says Christiane Sebenne of Enfance et Familles d'Adoption, a French agency. "We shouldn't make life even harder by uprooting them...
Second City's first law was that onstage its performers should avoid tension and strive for harmony. "You're supposed to make your fellow actors look good," says Ramis, also an early Second City star. "Bill internalized that ethic more than most. Belushi would come out, and the audience would laugh before he opened his mouth, but then he'd go into an extended character thing that would make the other actors feel superfluous. Bill got other people involved. He had energy, integrity. He was fascinating to watch...
Melissa Dell is the paradigm of the athlete-scholar, well-rounded and academically outstanding—basically, what all Harvard students strive to be. She’s even humble about it. In the end, Dell says, “it comes down to what you’re really passionate about and what you believe.” It’d be trite coming from anyone else, but Dell somehow makes it sincere...
Capp said at the gathering that he would continue to strive for the platform goals of his campaign as a representative from Kirkland House...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, convened after the sit-in, recommended the implementation of the current Wage and Benefit Parity Policy (WBPP). The parity policy says that the University must “strive to ensure” that contracted custodial, dining and security workers “receive total compensation comparable to that offered to corresponding University employees...