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Word: strives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Taye Diggs) flash back to their youth in Inglewood, Calif., courting the girls and stoutly refusing a joint from the local gangster ("What are you all, Muslims or something?"). The movie is aiming more for American Graffiti than American Pie; it dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh. But this is tired stuff. No one is likely to look back on the '90s, smile dewily and say, "Ah, yes, The Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Wood Directed by Rick Famuyiwa | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...couple, who have two daughters, Gracie, 2, and Maggie, 10 months, strive to keep family first. The McGraws live right outside Nashville but are on the road three months of the year. The kids travel with Hill, but both Mom and Dad constantly stop in at each other's shows to steal quality time together. A joint tour may soon be in the offing. Hill, who recently inked an endorsement deal with Cover Girl cosmetics, describes herself as "very independent," but nonetheless, offstage she prefers to go by her husband's name. Says Hill: "I really think of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tennessee Two-Step | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...order to help pin down these policy-averse politicians populating the worldwide muddle of the middle, TIME Daily has developed six non-mutually exclusive archetypes to which every middle-grounder worth his or her salt will strive to conform ?- and then matched them with some of the politicians practicing the centrist art today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Winning the Middle | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...LORD GOD: No. It takes longer to get smart guys up to speed. But I shall strive with him, and eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith At The Speed Of Light | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Although randomization has its foes and its flaws, the program instituted with our class reflects the kind of life we ought to strive for as we enter a world much more diverse than Harvard: a life in which we will not discriminate among human beings on the basis of skin color, sexual orientation or religion; a life in which we will live, eat and send our children to school with persons of all creeds and colors; a life in which we will think of future generations before ourselves and value human variety above homogeneity...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Harvard's Gift | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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