Word: strove
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...early days, Senor said he and his colleagues faced a deteriorating security situation as they strove to launch a reconstruction effort that lacked basic resources and skilled personnel...
...split three-tier system of licenses: one for basic driving privileges, one for U.S.-Canada border transit, and another federally accepted license that would comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005. The policy change aimed to improve road safety and lower insurance premiums. Even more importantly, the legislation strove to bring an estimated 500,000 otherwise law-abiding New Yorkers into the system and “out of the shadows.”Nativists opined that America’s borders would be dramatically less secure if undocumented immigrants were to acquire the de facto legitimacy that...
Despite its ambition of bringing the three plays together, “Beckett at 100,” produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, always strove to maintain a certain level of this un-theatricality. Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater in the Harvard’s English department, kept the works’ original media in mind in several key decisions, like setting the stage elements in specific geometric configurations and bringing in technology as a physical presence on stage. It was Scanlan’s innovative and creative interpretation of Beckett?...
...with the goal of appealing to a worldwide audience. Paulina Rubio, Carlos Ponce, RBD (these names probably don’t ring any bells): they all tried it with only limited success. Juanes, who has recorded only in Spanish, has achieved the international acclaim that these Latin American artists strove for. Non-Spanish speakers have enjoyed Juanes’s music—no translation necessary. “La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” his first album in three years, happily proves no different. The album opens with the lively, uplifting lyrics...
...founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money and dropped out of Harvard his junior year to run the company full-time. He currently maintains 20 percent ownership of the company, giving him a theoretical net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for investors. “I would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” Zuckerberg told The Crimson in 2005. “Most businesses aren’t like a bunch of kids living...