Word: strove
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...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 an estimated net worth of $3 billion. After founding Facebook, Zuckerberg strove to maintain the site’s independence, saying he was not looking for outside 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...
Meanwhile, Roberts and Breyer churned out the lion's share of the verbiage, writing for and against the court's ruling. Each strove to wrap the case in the lustrous legacy of Brown. "Before Brown," Roberts intoned, "schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin," and now these schools are doing the same. Not true, countered Breyer. Indeed, "to invalidate" those policies "is to threaten the promise of Brown," he warned...
...which generate energy by metabolizing sugar in their mitochondria, cancer cells appeared to fuel themselves exclusively through glycolysis, a less-efficient means of creating energy through the fermentation of sugar in the cytoplasm. Warburg believed that this metabolic switch was the primary cause of cancer, a theory that he strove, unsuccessfully, to establish until his death...
...much of the country is ignored. In particular, why should a candidate’s stance on swing-state concerns like ethanol—a hot button issue for Iowa’s farmers—determine whether or not they end up in the White House? The Founders strove for equality among the states, not unfettered favoritism. Take California for example, the largest state, whose population is nearly 70 times that of the smallest state, Wyoming. California’s 55 electoral votes is only 18 times Wyoming’s three, meaning that a vote in Wyoming potentially...
...about questions of efficiency and redistribution in public sector economics separately, “all of that comes from Musgrave.”“Generations of students who used his textbook [The Theory of Public Finance] think about the world very differently,” Cutler said.Musgrave strove for much of his life to find ways for the state to play a positive role in the economy, which entailed understanding the trade-offs between allowing the government to provide some goods versus allowing the private sector to provide them.As a student who came to Harvard...