Word: strives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With every bombing, Hamas demonstrates its utter disregard for the sanctity of human life. Its actions serve as a constant reminder that there are still many who rejoice over the deaths of Jews and who strive for the destruction of the State of Israel...
Even without this threat, students initial euphoria would die with the realization that the change in grading would not effect post-graduation prospects. Employers and graduate schools would continue to compare applicants against each other, so students still would strive to distingish themselves. But instead of receiving a bunch of letter grades for their efforts, they would have a list of extra-curricular and academic distinctions...
...past, Council presidents have often used such terms as "potential" and "future progress." Undoubtedly this Council will also strive to realize such aims. But today we can genuinely speak not only of future progress, but of a sea-change that is already reflected in many Council successes. This year's Council reflects Harvard's dynamic undergraduate student body by being more assertive and active in pursuing student concerns than ever before. We've made security and campus safety a priority by subsidizing the Harvard University Police Department's Rape Aggression Defense program and bringing Model Mugging seminars to campus...
...Harvard was not united in a righteous cause. Men then as now were divided by ideals and ideas: united by their experiences of life shared here in college they were divided in conflict, and are united now only in death. It is fitting that a University church should strive to tell a larger truth, and it does so, however painful or ambiguous it may appear to be, by the inclusion of the sons of Harvard in whose death the divisions of our community are made clear. When the German plaques are explained to our visitors the response is nearly always...
...union official in St. Louis; two sisters-in-law also work for AT&T. Brian's wife Linda is a federal probation officer who has continued to work during the government shutdown with no guarantee of being paid. Her husband muses, "Both jobs are traditional ones that you strive for because you get a job for life. [But] in neither case is it true anymore...