Word: seek
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...Faculty called on the Harvard president to end the University's $130,000 subvention to MIT and to seek "arrangements that would preserve the opportunity for individual Harvard students to participate in ROTC...
...faculty committee will draw professors into public service in an official capacity for the first time. While no professors even commented on the proposal when it was discussed at a Faculty meeting, we would be very surprised if none volunteered their services for this excellent cause. This committee should seek to involve itself and other faculty in the execution and expansion of public service, not just the oversight of existing programs...
Terrorism is always a possibility, but the risks pale beside the opportunity of a pact with Syria. Even with Israel at peace with its other neighbors, Syria might seek to undermine the existing agreements if it remains the only state on Israel's borders still at war with it. Peace with Syria would also calm the region, help secure Western access to Middle East oil at reasonable prices and further isolate Iraq and Iran, the bad actors supporting the world's worst terrorists...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier raised questions about the wisdom of such a U.S. mission and called the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations a "fraud...
...Pottinger: in 1974 he was a Nixon Administration lawyer. He eventually retired from public service and worked in investment banking and real estate, suffering occasionally from the vicissitudes of the marketplace. His first novel, The Fourth Procedure -- a thriller -- will be published in April.) He has no plans to seek national office at this time...