Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them unparalleled opportunities to develop their intellects, their values and their qualities of leadership. We are committed to the proposition that women should have lives and purposes of their own. Mount Holyoke College, having been at it for 130 years, prefers to offer something special to the women who seek equal partnership in marriage and in careers...
...stocked M-16 automatic rifles at the ready, they faded swiftly into the perennial twilight of 80-ft. trees, impenetrable bamboo thickets, and tangles of thorn and "wait a minute" vines. This was "Lurp Team Two," a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, sent to seek out two Viet Cong regiments that their outfit was itching to locate, engage and destroy. Within moments, Team Two was itself in imminent danger of destruction...
...have to be quicker," says James Bellows, the Trib's last editor, who is now associate editor of the Los Angeles Times. Instead of hiring worn-out legmen as rewrite men, says onetime Trib Editor John Denson, who is now executive editor of Atlas magazine, the paper should seek out specialists with enough knowledge at their command to put a story in context...
...lecture, this one against speculative trading by institutions. "Increasingly," said Martin, "managers of mutual funds, and portfolio and pension-fund administrators are measuring their success in terms of relatively short-term market performance. In effect, they set a target on a growth stock, attain that target, unload, and then seek other opportunities for quick capital gains." Given the size of their buying power, said Martin, such activity "may virtually corner the market in individual stocks," at the least cause undesirable price fluctuations. "Practices of this nature" said he, "contain poisonous qualities reminiscent of some respects of the old pool operations...
...Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers," said Wyndham White, "can no longer pursue their destinies in disregard of others. Still less can they seek solutions to their economic problems by narrow nationalistic policies. Nor can one escape the impact of the economic difficulties of the others." The crucial compromises...