Word: strived
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...most important reasons it is so difficult to attain peace in the Middle East: too many people misguidedly believe that something of a human being remains after death and that this something will experience pain and pleasure. The suffering resulting from this belief is unspeakably tragic. We need to strive for a better life while we are living. ANDRIES R. VAN DEN BERG Pretoria...
...ultimate victory that America—and the world—could enjoy in this presently war-torn region is a solid and lasting peace. We should strive for diplomacy, as well as caution, in order to protect the world from a trigger-happy president and a debatable imperative that will only cost more lives—both American and Arab...
...Four: Skip the prune fingers. This is not a time for daily baths. Instead, strive for shorter showers (and see Six for even more efficient personal hygiene...
...labor. If workers feel their wages are inadequate, they have the right to suspend or cancel the contract and withhold labor. If employers feel workers’ labor is inadequate, they have the right to terminate employment. Employers must compete for the services that workers offer, and workers must strive to make their services more valuable. What the PSLM fails to understand is that not every action in pursuit of higher wages is just or ethical. While every worker has the right to withhold his labor, it is not his right to commandeer a public street and deprive innocent motorists...
...contemporary persuasive cloth of gay rights, our true military aversion runs much deeper than that. The hierarchy, order and discipline necessary to maintain the military threaten our coveted sense of individuality; the brute spectacle of war comes as an affront to the practice of reasoned discourse that we strive so seriously to perfect. War as a whole might be avoided, we muse in the academic comfort of a seminar room, if only everyone would read Habermas...