Word: pursuits
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...normal times, none of this would be remotely surprising. It is the way that great powers work. "American foreign policy," wrote National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a 2000 Foreign Affairs article that became the template for the Bush approach, "should refocus on the national interest and the pursuit of key priorities." For this Administration, missile defense and NATO expansion are key priorities; the fate of Chechens is not. But these are not normal times, and after Sept. 11, the pursuit of the national interest was, supposedly, suddenly invested with another characteristic. In a phrase that Rice herself has used...
...photographs. Bochner is an influential and ground-breaking figure in the post-minimal and conceptual art movements. Although known more for his paintings, installations and drawings, Bochner’s photography offers an unusual insight into the process and development of the artist’s conceptual pursuit. Significantly, Bochner did not actually take and develop the photographs himself; rather he constructed and contrived the circumstances for their professional execution. These photographs are best viewed as the physical residue and record of his conceptual musings and investigations...
With the federal grant application due in less than a month, coalition members have been scurrying about in pursuit of administrative support for their project...
April showers may well bring May flowers, but this year April sunshine has been bringing out scores of Harvard sunbathers. Even the most dour students have found themselves tempted outside, content to forget work for a few hours and dedicate themselves to the wholesome pursuit of melanoma. After all, there could be few places more beautiful to lie outside than in the middle of Harvard Yard—except when it is barricaded off for fertilization—or down on the grassy banks of the Charles...
...meeting with the Palestinian leader is a "tragic mistake," and that he has no intention of seeking any agreements with Arafat himself. Bush administration hawks may share Sharon's loathing of Arafat, but Washington has come to accept that there's no way of bypassing the Palestinian leader in pursuit of a truce...