Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asking for the Emperor's opinion, shocking everyone into silence. Everyone, that is, but Prime Minister Suzuki, who quickly pointed out that it was the right move, given that the government was stymied and unable to act at the moment their people most needed action: "I propose, therefore, to seek the imperial guidance and substitute it for the decision of this conference...
...existed; top CIA sources hurry to concede his possible involvement in the deaths. Instead Hitz appears to base the agency's claim to innocence on its incompetence. The CIA's Guatemala station was shockingly sloppy. It received tips about Alpirez' supposed abuses from highly unreliable witnesses but did not seek corroboration. At one point, the station even passed on--without further investigation-allegations of torture based solely on secondhand accounts of his boasts at a drinking party. Then the station officers added insult to idiocy: the report details their withholding suspicions from two successive American ambassadors in Guatemala, from...
Jonathan S. Myers is the only incumbent who will not seek re-election...
...would drive up premiums, mainly by keeping more sick people insured, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), a co-sponsor, said: "Most Americans would rather see a modest increase of premiums in exchange for peace of mind." Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the other chief backer, said he would still seek Clinton-style universal coverage, "but it's important to deal in the real world...
Perhaps best articulated by Proust in his Remembrance of Things Past, this ethic dictates that the individual's imaginative re-appropriation of his own past is the best means of cultivating an educated perspective. A liberal education can scarcely aspire to do more. And those who seek to elevate the Western canon by denying racial and ethnic minorities a chance to create their own "usable pasts" do nothing but dishonor its normative implications...