Word: seek
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...foresee federal support and we do not seek it," Harrison adds. "NASA's role has traditionally focused on technological development, and that goes back to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics of the 1930s...
Surely the most heart-wrenching human-interest story in the press recently was a cover article in Forbes magazine titled "The New Refugees." These miserable souls are not fleeing conventional forms of oppression, such as the famine, dictatorship, torture and murder that have caused millions to seek haven in the U.S. through the generations. These are rich folks who, according to Forbes, are giving up their American citizenship -- the very status boat people by the thousands are risking their lives for even today -- because (according to one quoted legal expert) they "can't pay the federal tax rate and live...
...gets really serious about that issue, it will have to tackle the spiraling cost of entitlement programs -- and that would mean gutting the farm subsidies Daschle has championed throughout his career. "Even if we skirt entitlements generally," explains a Democratic Senator, "at some point early on, the Republicans will seek to pay for the capital- gains tax cut they want by reducing Medicare payments. That will be the time to offer our counter: a cut in farm subsidies." Daschle says he "knows that everything has to be on the table, including farm programs," a stance that provokes laughter from...
Albert's music is not simply a commentary on its sources, however; it is a transformation of them. "I seek a new synthesis: to find new relations between old things," he once said. "I want to form a continuum with the past, not ape it." As Albert becomes part of the past, the proof of his accomplishment is that he did exactly that...
...year, 80% of them from out of town. Once the youths are lured in the door by free food, a friendly atmosphere and a no-questions-asked policy, counselors try to find them shelters, drug treatment and job training. More than 60% of youths ages 12 to 17 who seek help at the center are diverted from the street. At Options House, a shelter in Hollywood, 40% of youths counseled are reunited with their families. But family reunion is not always desirable. Says executive director Leslie Forbes: "Sometimes we'll call the families, and they...