Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ideally, a hand-picked committee would gather information, seek community input, and design a new program to keep down spiralling health care costs...
...does the incumbent seem so relaxed, now that he faces an onslaught of three Democrats who seek to unseat him come November...
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against O.J. Simpson in the slayings of his wife and her friend, they said Friday. Instead they will seek life without the possibility of parole. The announcement was expected by legal observers, who point out that jurors would have been less likely to side with the prosecution if it had pursued the death penalty...
Some experts think Castro's most likely course is to emulate China, combining a turn toward economic freedom with continued political control. While that would be far from ideal, it would still be in the U.S. interest to encourage it and seek through negotiation to promote political loosening too. The best way to do that would be to talk to Castro. Trade and investment that % might relieve Cuba's economic despair are the only ways to reduce the refugee flow permanently, even if Castro stays in power. His days of encouraging red revolution throughout the hemisphere are long since over...
...audience cheered, and the critics raved about Upshaw's charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings a far wider range of music than is typical for an international star, yet at 34 she has risen faster and further than any other American singer of her generation...