Word: vigorousness
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...Harvard’s student body is not just lacking the progressive vigor that led to the takeover of University Hall in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, or the Mass. Hall occupation in 2001 to rally students against low worker wages. It is bereft of any vigor...
...orderly dollar decline would make Asia's exports cheaper in global markets, but there's an important caveat. Recently, Asia has been drawing support from the long-awaited recovery of the Japanese economy, the world's second-largest. If Japan's newfound vigor is real, there is no overriding reason why the yen should continue to sag. Just as the day will come when the dollar will fall again, a concomitant rebound in the yen is equally likely. That could prove quite vexing to Japanese exporters...
...Recipients of the Rhodes Scholarships receive full funding to attend the University of Oxford in England for two or three years. Scholars are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor, according to the Rhodes Trust, which administers the award. According to Kelly, the applicants go through a rigorous application process that includes a 1,000-word personal statement, an endorsement from a college or universty—Kelly’s was from the Naval Academy, not Harvard—eight letters...
...role as an overseer of U.S. military policy, a role it has largely abdicated for the greater part of the last three years. While we believe calls for the public release of a timetable for withdrawal are imprudent, we are encouraged by the renewed sense of vigor with which Congress is scrutinizing U.S. military strategy in Iraq. For Republican leadership, taking on this new role means questioning the Bush administration’s prosecution of the war, something that seemed inconceivable as early as a month ago. As recently as his Veteran’s Day address, Bush called critics...
...shrugs off his missteps, preferring to emphasize the overall vigor of his campaign to storm the council. And he challenges his opponents to refute the substance of his points...