Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line of approach,' Fairbank proposes, "should seek to undermine the militancy" of the Chinese. He feels the U.S. could take advantage of several important factors, including the need of the Maoist regime to bolster national morale and the "accumulated fatigue of the revolution," by agreeing the China's admission...
...several thousands of New Jersey students who have been forced to seek education outside my home state, I applaud your thought-provoking article on New Jersey's blighted system of education...
...General Lawrence O'Brien, an old Mafia comrade, stayed away in order to retain maximum room for maneuver in case he, too, should decide to go home and run for office this year. Though he says he has no such intention, some Massachusetts politicians believe that he will seek the Democratic nomination to fill retiring Leverett Saltonstall's Senate seat...
...Sardauna of Sokoto met secretly in Ibadan, decided to call in the army to crush the growing rebellion. As far as the junior officers were concerned, that was the last straw. They launched their long-planned coup. "Our enemies," said Nzeogwu, "are the political profiteers, the men that seek bribes, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so they can remain in office as Ministers, tribalists and nepotists, those that have corrupted our society and put the political calendar back...
...began negotiating the issue with the government in Caracas, and two Venezuelan Cabinet ministers opened talks with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann. The Venezuelans want more than a simple increase in royalties to bankroll their grand industrial-development plans. Among other things, they seek a stronger voice in the companies' policies and the power to fix the world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade...