Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Philippines, where he was briefly married. His esoteric hobbies ranged from beekeeping to acupuncture. "I'd rather have a loving son than a genius," his mother once confided. Though his father showed a strong attachment to Robert, it was thought that he financed his moody son's quest for college diplomas to keep him away from home. When Robert graduated first in his class from the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, in 1986, the family was relieved that he finally seemed set to embark on a career...
Victor R. Fuchs, an economist at Stanford University, says traditional expectations that women will marry and bear children have created gender-specific wage scales. This means, Fuchs says in his book, Women's Quest for Economic Equality, that married women earn less than their male counterparts and less than unmarried women as well...
...Women's Quest for Economic Equality, Fuchs recommends policies that address children's needs and attempt to equalize women's positions in the workforce. He recommended parental leave programs, financial incentives and subsidized childcare on a national level...
Ironically, much of the grief which Duffy has encountered in his quest for MCAD's top post has come from other gays...
What might have been a methodical, scientific quest has turned into a wild crapshoot. In more than 60 laboratories around the world, researchers are working with at least 40 different concoctions in pursuit of one of medicine's most urgent goals: the development of an AIDS vaccine. Any team that succeeds will reap fame, fortune and the satisfaction of possibly wiping out a disease that ranks among the deadliest scourges ever to afflict humanity...