Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes have been led to assume that their only right of appeal to white Americans as individuals or to America as a whole was through the agency of conscience... Other groups have sought, or been led to seek, not love but justice. Within the framework of justice, love may bring fulfillment to human relationships. Without justice, love can only be acquiescence...
...Council rarely plays the role of guardian to Harvard, but that's what it decided to do this week. Councillor Walter J. Sullivan presented a motion to ask City officials to seek ways to eliminate the congregation of "undesirable persons" in and around Holyoke Center...
Sullivan's order was adopted. It also asked the City Manager to confer with Harvard to seek adequate 24-hour supervision of this area in order to prevent it from becoming "a haven for undesirable persons, thereby destroying the purpose for which this beautiful area was constructed...
...against Germany in the First World War, and once established it never relented. Nations at the Kennedy Round were, understandably, insistent upon the abolition of this discriminatory practice. Because they did not have specific authority under the 1962 Trade Act to abolish it, the U.S. negotiators agreed tentatively to seek abolition, in return for more concessions from the Common Market, England, and Switzerland. The negotiators did have authority, however, to cut duties on 95 per cent of all chemical imports to this country by nearly 50 per cent in return for corresponding cuts from the other major markets...
There has been some expected grumbling over other parts of the agreements. Domestic industries are not too kindly towards the reductions in tariffs on steel, aluminum, textiles, paper, pulp, lumber, and many other items. But these industries can seek remedies in other forms, such as Federal adjustment assistance or legislative limits on imports that compete for their American market...