Word: toils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capitalism, but at the same time, fantasies portray its benefits. For instance, one finds a cautionary note about the human search for utopia in the movie "Appleseed", where a world programmed to be perfect through scientific advances becomes as much of a prison as the pre-utopia world of toil and strife...
Your report "A Constabulary of Thugs" was unbalanced, and it maligned the efforts of thousands of members of the Haitian National Police who toil daily under arduous circumstances in an effort to provide law enforcement in Haiti. I take responsibility for the actions of my subordinates and acknowledge that some HNP members have committed human-rights abuses, but the majority of these offenses have been identified through the investigative efforts of HNP officials. The HNP does not condone these acts, and we are addressing these very serious problems. I have approved the dismissal of 103 people from the force based...
Famous professors are everybody's sweethearts, including the administration's, because they represent the pinnacle of their respective fields. We admire them because they have made names for themselves through scholarship; they give all of us would-be scholars hope that we can reap success from worthwhile toil. But reading their books, bumping into them on campus or attending the occasional lecture is one thing--enrolling in one of their classes is another. I am enticed by fame and grandeur as much as the next guy, but time and electives are precious commodities. So I switched into an English seminar...
While Harvard sports fans complain about the mediocrity of the men's hockey, football and basketball teams, some teams toil away under almost complete anonymity...
SEVEN HUNDRED FEET BELOW the beauty of Central Park, "sandhogs" toil in darkness and cold, hammering through rock and laying the foundation for famous skyscrapers and sewer lines. Seven hundred feet below the lights of Time Square, the darker side of the New York City underworld surfaces in Thomas Kelly's first novel, Payback, a look into the opulent 80s construction business that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard...