Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the more radical expatriates there is little sense that exile from the U.S. is final, even less that they are separated from significant events there. The violent opposition to the war that has caused many of them to seek refuge in Canada has united them here. Much of the Montreal anti-war movement is American-inspired and American...
...they search for promising shares, the professionals look above all for corporate profits-but there has been a change in the kind of profits that they seek. Today's stock analysts are much less interested in past or even present profits than the potential for future growth. Many are largely uninterested in a company's physical assets because some of the best earnings gainers, especially in service industries, have little in the way of property or machines...
They will probably seek four major changes...
...Soviet Delegate Platon D. Morozov immediately moved to strike the issue from the agenda, won support only from Hungary and Algeria and was voted down, 12 to 3. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg then called on the council to "act with the greatest urgency" lest the U.S. be forced to seek "other courses which the U.N. charter reserves to member states...
Without a sense of meaning, says Dr. Frankl, even the pursuit of happiness must lead to a dead end. A man who sets out deliberately to seek pleasure through sexual gratification will, he believes, defeat himself. So will the man who lusts for power; even its achievement will avail him nothing unless it involves the satisfaction of some inner goal...