Word: effort
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University leaders drew the boundaries almost seven years ago, in an effort to curb property speculation in neighborhoods surrounding Harvard...
...final factor missing from the Harvard effort for most of this season has been leadership. Senior Co-captain Caryn Curry has the experience, credentials and brains to be the director of the production, but she refuses to keep her performers in line. The youngsters needed Curry during their opening tour--needed her to drive and shoot more from the outside when no one else seemed capable of holding the ball, let alone put it through the hoop...
Laurie Stauffer, an OCS-OCL counselor, said yesterday that the rise does not reflect an increased effort to attract recruiters. She said OCS-OCL invites the same number of companies every year, but during the past few years more have decided to come...
...more open-minded appraisal of the domestic dynamics of Third World nations, instead, coupled with a more visible reluctance to support repressive dictatorships, surely would. No amount of money spent on flexible military capabilities will protect our "vital interests"--like Middle East oil--as effectively as a wholehearted effort to understand cultural forces like Islam...
...pursue unity in part because of its own precarious existence and dwindling flock in Turkey, which has dropped from 80,000 in 1955 to 6,000 today. The situation was poignantly clear when only 250 people (including reporters) attended last week's historic Eucharist. But Dimitrios' effort could be frustrated by Orthodoxy's largest branch, the Church of Russia, which rivals the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority and is inhibited in any pursuit of Christian unity by the wishes of the Soviet state. To the Kremlin, Catholicism is an alien influence that stirs up Ukrainian and Lithuanian...