Word: striven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are also hints of potential rifts within the Civic Forum. Until now, the organization has striven to encourage consensus and avoid partisan affiliation. "The Civic Forum's purpose," says Havel, "is to be a bridge between the totalitarian system and true pluralistic democracy." But popular heroes are already emerging. One is Valtr Komarek, 59, director of the official Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. An academic with a magnetic speaking style, Komarek seized the nation's imagination last weekend with a nine-minute televised address that detailed Communist incompetence in economic management. By the Monday strike...
...Harvard, I worked in most of the departments of the library, serving, at various times, as a shelver, fines assistant, desk attendant, weekend supervisor and technical services assistant. Lamont has its share of problems, and there are, at times, delays in getting books on reserve. However, the staff has striven for years to streamline the process and has made remarkable progress with their efforts. In addition, the reserves staff has in recent years rededicated itself to strict adherence to the copyright protection act which, admittedly, causes more paperwork and headaches, but is, after all, a legal and moral necessity...
...their credit, Livingston and Beardsley have stuck to their guns and striven to choose the art on artistic, not sociological, grounds. One may gripe about the presence or absence of this or that name. (Why, for example, was someone as distinguished and inventive as Puerto Rico's Rafael Ferrer left out?) But, in the main, the show is a real revelation...
Since ABC's Al Michaels shouted those words to a national television audience eight years ago from Lake Placid, legions of American hockey-playing youths have striven to emulate their heroes, members of the goldmedal winning 1980 USA Olympic team...
...this regard, baseball has always been different. Hockey has become almost a parody of what a contact sport should be. Football has always striven for grit; bloody noses are badges of honor. And even basketball, supposedly a non-contact sport, celebrates perspiration, endurance and size...