Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aides leaked his apparent preference with greater and greater certainty, only to pull back at the last minute. Soon after Clinton's first choice, Senate majority leader George Mitchell, announced that he didn't want the job, debates within the Administration turned on whether to seek an appointee who could forge coalitions on a divided court or to find a suitable black, Hispanic or female candidate...
With the mean grades available for specific course, students could potentially seek out classes with high average grades, and students might also compete more strongly for above-average grades, Damon said...
...expedited if the lazy pseudo-intellectuals at 21 South Street bothered to take time out from ponderous autohagiography to distribute their magazine with any consistency; the prodgious talent that shines forth from the dingy building is so bright that the rest of us should have the good sense to seek it out on our own time and at our own expense, as though that rickety, infested partyrental fire-traps were some poetic Lourdes...
...House subcommittee passed the Smoke-Free Environment Act, thus moving on a bill that would outlaw smoking in most public areas, including almost all businesses. Recent legislation has banned cigarettes in public schools and army tanks. And the Food and Drug Administration announced several months ago that it would seek to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug...
...Attorney Eric Holder, investigating alleged financial wrongdoing by Illinois Democratic Representative Dan Rostenkowski, wants the Justice Department to seek an indictment. Rostenkowski denies any wrongdoing...