Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attack. He does not think Kim Il Sung is looking for an economic payoff or playing a self-aggrandizing game of brinkmanship. Rather he is obsessed with assuring the survival not just of the regime but also of the very country he created. The diplomat compares Kim's quest for nuclear power with French President Charles de Gaulle's determination to have his own nuclear force de frappe. Kim, says the diplomat, is "building the Bomb to guarantee his independence...
...loss crushed any chance Harvard might have had to make it to the NCAA championships, and put its quest for a league title in jeopardy...
...Leeuwen won the NCAA fencing championship in the foil in March, sinking 16 opponents in a row to cruise to an undefeated tournament victory. The championship marked the realization of the three-year quest for the fencing captain, who finished third and second, respectively, in the tourney the two previous years...
...Harvard's admissions policies, as well as those at other colleges across the country, are being questioned by some who allege that they are victims of a politically correct quest for multiculturalism...
...possible that Jackie's quest for money -- probably the reason behind her unhappy marriage to Onassis -- is rooted in her father's financial troubles. But her stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss, was generous; she headed off to Miss Porter's School, an ultra-posh boarding school, with her own horse. Two years at Vassar followed, but Jackie was too restless to thrive in the leafy confines of a Poughkeepsie, New York, campus. She finished college at George Washington University and, spurning the Prix de Paris offers, began her job as the Inquiring Photographer for the Washington Times-Herald...