Word: strives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because each Jubilee committee realizes the full extent of Boston's cultural and social assets. Therefore it must strive to provide activities which Boston itself cannot offer and to which lone individuals simply would not have access. The creativity of past committees has been uncanny, their ability to select top entertainment unsurpassed...
...velvet. The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, the Presbyterian minister who baptized Eisenhower in 1953 (Ike's parents were members of a Mennonite sect) and who was one of three ministers officiating, offered thanks "for his high vision of the better world toward which all men of goodwill strive...
...outlined two primary goals when he became president of J. Walter Thompson Co. five years ago. A onetime radio announcer, Seymour emphasized that he intended to safeguard those factors-particularly talent-that have helped 105-year-old J.W.T. become the world's biggest advertising agency. He would also strive, he said, to acquire new "tools" and people to enable it to grow still further...
With or without White House backing, Congress should strive to redraw the tax code into something much fairer and less complicated. But serious tax reform will have to attack special interests all at once if it is to have much chance of enactment. Piecemeal efforts invite public apathy, which makes it easier for Congress to acquiesce to the demands of loophole beneficiaries. When tax-code reform is accomplished, Congress will be free to act on some new and imaginative tax ideas, such as Nixon's plan to offer special incentives for the rebuilding of ghettos and Economist Walter Heller...
...rage for relevance often seems to induce the opposite effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...