Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a recognized procedure for divorce, which in the U.S. reaches a peak around the third year of marriage. A curious cementing factor in societies allowing free mate selection is that partners tend to complement each other's psychological needs-for example, "a highly hostile individual would seek to mate with a highly abasing person...
...institute will seek to further one of President Kennedy's deepest concerns," Schlesinger declared, "that of bringing together the world of ideas and the world of affairs--the world of scholarship and the world of decision...
Bill Scranton, too, delivered a punchy speech. Said he: "The Republican Party was born to save the Union, and we did just that. The Republican Party was made to move, not to stand, to be positive, not to negate, to create, not to destroy. We seek hearts and hands and votes-not because politic, is the science of scratching backs, but because politics is the art of serving a nation...
...Latin America's 220 million people, 45% now live in cities, and the percentage is rising as more and more people seek to escape the unemployment and near starvation of the countryside. Four of the world's 13 largest cities are in Latin America; Buenos Aires counts 7,000,000 people, Mexico City 5,500,000, Sao Paulo 4,300,000, Rio de Janeiro 3,700,000. Ten Latin American cities already have populations of more than 1,000,000 and by 1980, according to U.N. estimates, 16 others will top the million mark...
...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...