Word: strove
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Though the faculty who crafted Harvard’s program—many of whom have experience with other study abroad programs—strove to create something new, they examined other existing programs...
...primarily a teacher of journal writing, Davis strove to walk “the thin line between helping her students work on their writing and emancipating them as people,” recalled daughter Lydia Davis of Port Ewen...
...said the firm strove to preserve the building’s distinctive Bauhaus style, including a prominent ramp that leads up to the second floor...
...Dublin brewing head David Varian acknowledges. "People had to face up to really major change," he says. "We ship Guinness to Japan. There are a lot of very good Japanese brewers, and they could probably brew Guinness." Varian, an Irishman who previously worked in the U.K. petrochemicals industry, strove to help his staff see the global picture; he dismantled long-standing hierarchies and gave employees challenging new tasks. Frontline personnel, like keg assembly-line operators and brew-house managers, now discuss departmental budgets...
Toward the end of his remarks, Kerry tempered these salvos with a remarkably direct address to President Bush that still strove to avoid a negative tone, in keeping with the convention’s general tenor of strength in cooperative unity...