Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaches manhood (surprise, surprise). He asks out the homely girl who has been vying for attention throughout the movie. She has been also suddenly been transformed into a beautiful woman by the time Jonathan asks her out, thus reducing his new found maturity to his earlier sex quest...
...will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much--or the institutional knowledge required to become citizens at parity with American citizenship standards, and it is insulting and just plain ignorant of Mansfield to suggest otherwise What Black Americans have tacked in their tortuous citizenship quest is the freedom to pursue it--freedom from vulgar and degrading racist values like those implied in Mansfield and Charles Murray's writings, freedom from a century of authoritarian practices, especially in the South, where over 70 percent of Afro-American lived until 1960, freedom from violence (both judicial...
...screening is needed now, explains Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Richard Stilwell, because "the Soviet Union and its surrogates have become far more active in their covert quest for America's secrets. We have ten people awaiting trial on espionage charges, the highest figure in recent memory." Those selected for special testing will be mostly medium- and high- level officials, among them civilians, uniformed officers and even private contractors...
...taking shape. The organization chart of key players and their new positions of power was being sketched. But there was no blueprint, no grand design. As if by whimsy, top officials were leaving Government, switching jobs or signaling their desire to depart. Each seemed free to pursue his own quest for personal fulfillment, whether by taking on new challenges, easing into less wearisome tasks or just taking a rest. The President amiably concurred in the wishes of his subordinates. It was a shake-up by the shakers themselves...
...held by white males. Yet while advocates of comparable worth defend the theory as a means to greater equality, legislation requiring businesses to adopt a pay scale along such lines would not only have a deleterious effect on businesses throughout the nation but would also seriously impede the workers' quest for wealth and would put yet another hole in the taxpayer's pocket...