Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events which often go unnoticed. Whether reading about "poisonous and nonpoisonous varieties of the genus Amanita" mushrooms, or the skin in sheddings of garter snakes, one is thrilled. The sobering comes shortly after, when one remembers the criminally foolish president and his similarly foolish and greedy followers who strive to make the water, as and ground unlivable for mushrooms, garter snakes and people
...Their moments on stage almost erase the other looseness of the play. But the scope around these characters is too broad. Somehow the true meaning gets lost in between the tribunal and the sociologist. A more steady, vibrant ground needs to be established before these three characters can poignantly strive for the freedom of the city...
...absence of federal pressure. Yet his own report acknowledges that "outside pressure" may have been initially responsible for Harvard's internal monitoring of its hiring practices. And with the persistence of selfstyled meritocrats on the Faculty, it is by no means obvious that an unpressured Harvard would continue to strive for truly color-blind and sex-blind hiring practices...
...condition for continued U.S. aid was that the Salvadoran government must "credibly" strive for three longstanding U.S. objectives: 1) continuation of the land redistribution program, 2) commitment to free elections and 3) an end to indiscriminate human rights abuses. Any new coalition, the U.S. made clear, must include a "prominent role" for the Christian Democrats, who are most closely tied to the reforms. The U.S. also hammered home the message that a leading role for the notorious D'Aubuisson would be unacceptable to Congress...
...taxpayers who still strive to fill out their Form 1040s accurately and completely, the task has become ever more arduous and exasperating. Congress loaded last year's tax bill with new deduction rules, depreciation formulas and tax-shelter gimmicks and thus added to the confusion that has already made the Internal Revenue Code scarcely more comprehensible than a textbook on quantum mechanics...