Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will Government recognize how important it is that an institution of higher learning strive to advance simultaneously and consistently along a broad front of academic interests rather than be content to make occasional spurts ahead in some limited area of immediate concern? Will leaders of government actively support, not merely pay lip service to the idea that the social studies and the humanities are also relevant in considerations of national strength...
...Will Government recognize how important it is that an institution of higher learning strive to advance simultaneously and consistently along a broad front of academic interests rather than be content to make occasional spurts ahead in some limited area of immediate concern? Will leaders of government actively support, not merely pay lip service to the idea that the social studies and the humanities are also relevant in considerations of national strength...
...freely allows both pictures and interviews in an effort to counter charges that his firm is meddling in Congolese politics. More important, with European workers now earning better wages, their employers are finding that their best market is at home, increasingly aim for greater volume at lower markups and strive to meet mass tastes. Onetime racing driver Count Giannino Marzotto, managing director of Italy's biggest textile firm, daringly steered his family-owned company into ready-to-wear clothes despite warnings that he was bound to fail, has succeeded so grandly that he now oversees a thriving chain...
...Template. Catherine de' Medici decreed that women should strive for a waist measurement of 13 inches. Sophia Loren sets the template...
Irreversible Commitment. The planned eight-year transition period will see a drastic reorganization of traditional European agricultural patterns. As governments strive to make their farms competitive, countless families from Bavaria to south ern Italy will be forced off marginal farms; in most cases, they will be drawn into Europe's industry, which faces serious manpower shortages. In West Germany alone, planners estimate that 1,000,000 farms will be abandoned or consolidated. (The new Market-wide fund will help compensate farmers forced off the land...