Word: strived
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...part, CID operates, along with countless other centers at the University, at the crucial points of intersect between teaching, research and policy. In this context, your protest against University "institutions that...have a distinctly non-academic purpose" seems to imply that you believe Harvard should strive to be more of an ivory tower. A novel position, certainly...
...meet once a week, but not everyone comes," Baker says. "Because our numbers are growing, it's becoming harder to have the family atmosphere we strive for. I wouldn't say we're tight-knit because it is something very specific we have in common...
...some cited this as just the type of precedent Cambridge should strive to avoid, saying it's made life easier for illegal immigrants, rather than empowering the legal aliens it was designed to help...
Lian's targets are as big as Mao portraits in a May Day parade. At age 12, she accompanies her mother to a harsh re-education camp. The time is the late '60s, when the born-again Communists of the Cultural Revolution strive to out-Orwell their Orwellian betters. Lian's mother, a university professor, and father, a physician, are just the sort of professionals to be singled...
...apogee of the time when people were rejecting the notion that scholarship should be objective or balanced. That seemed to me to present lots and lots of problems to a government agency funding scholarship. Because once you reject the notion that scholarship shouldn't be objective or strive for balance, then what you are funding are things that have a viewpoint. And what's the government doing in the business funding things that are trying to promote a particular agenda? So I don't think of that as a conservative stance but a defense of good scholarship...