Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crime is the top issue in the March 5 mayoralty runoff that pits Donald Mintz, a lawyer and civic activist, against Marc Morial, a state senator and son of the late Dutch Morial, the city's first black mayor. The incumbent Sidney Barthelemy cannot seek a third term. Both candidates vow to put more cops on the street, but the issues have been obscured by a mudslinging barrage...
...third and most important reason I can't get exercised about Farrakhan is because to do so distracts us from the deep underlying crisis of meaning in American society that is central to why people are in so much pain that they are willing to seek any kind of anesthetic, from drugs and alcohol to communities based on fascism and racism...
...residents of Ovett have good reason to fear the preconceived notions of those who seek to judge them. Whether or not the residents' attitudes and actions are morally defensible, the mediators must strive for impartiality...
Criticism of the newly-formed Lynx is as ridiculous as the general criticism against all final clubs at Harvard. Final clubs receive no University funding or recognition, nor do they seek such treatment. Also, we should remind the staff that Americans, even Harvard students, maintain the right to engage in their own private associations...
...former council Secretary Randall A. Fine '96 decided not to seek the North House seat, despite speculation that he would try a comeback after narrowly losing a race for a seat last fall...