Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most aggressive recruiter in the AFL-CIO. One of AFSCME'S newest targets: engineers and programmers in Boston's booming high-technology firms. Meanwhile, the Teamsters won an election last October to represent 2,000 members of the University of Chicago's nonteaching staff. In quest of new members, the industrial unions are straying from their traditional turf, and this poaching is sparking resentment among the clerical unions. Says an angry OPEIU official: "I wish the Teamsters would get the hell out of here...
...must. Otherwise it won't be able to govern. The problem is that it has gone so far out on a limb in its quest for radical gestures that it will have difficulty regaining its poise. I am ready to help and I have proved it. Other politicians, I hope, will follow suit and give up the prevalent practice of scoring cheap points by blind, strident radicalism...
...Waldorf, Kennedy faced up to the end of his nearly ten-month quest for the presidential nomination. His top aides had considered what to do in case of a defeat on the rules fight. Kennedy had planned to issue a statement conceding that he no longer had a chance against Carter, yet let his name be placed in nomination nonetheless. But now he wandered back and forth between his family in one room and staff in another. Finally he made up his mind: "I think the right thing to do is to just get out. We carried...
Throughout the convention hall, tears filled many eyes. For Democrats who lived through the 1960s, this was a final chapter, both for Kennedy's quest for the nomination and for the social and political cause that he embodied. His speech may have been the last great liberal call to arms. To some it seemed impractical and out of tune with the country's needs and wants. It spoke to what once was and is no longer. But even many of those among his listeners who never admired Kennedy or his brothers may miss the sense of strength and certainty...
...film something fascinating when you have a $20 million budget? And anyways, every other movie has spies and sex and actors, right? So, to answer the question of motive, the writers concocted a plot that wastes most of the two hours: Byzanium, not scientific curiosity or the quest for adventure, is the motivation for refloating the Titantic...