Word: seek
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...privileged college students find ourselves, if it's supposed to provoke the realization that we're not alone in our misery, what about those of us who are really bummed out, but not "Atypically Depressed"? In that case, Wurtzel seems to suggest, it would be wrong to seek relief in anti-depressants, as they would take the edge off our disgust with this cruel world...
This is a time of profound insecurity in which people seek answers in their leaders which they can't find in themselves, a panel of academics said at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...though it also makes the President the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and thus able to order them into harm's way. The debates over the constitutional status of an invasion of Haiti have been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively...
...junta's friends pose a graver problem. They fear that Aristide's supporters, if not Aristide himself, will seek revenge for abuses and killings committed during the three years since the coup. There is a long tradition of vengeance when power shifts. When Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fell in 1986, crowds surged through Port-au-Prince seeking out members of the Tontons Macoutes and beating them to death. But Aristide's followers are just as afraid that weapons left in the hands of the military and its gangs of thugs will continue to be trained on them...
Against all odds, health-care reform registered a faint but detectable pulse on Capitol Hill as various alliances of legislators continued to seek some form of compromise. While both positive and negative reports surfaced, there was no official action...