Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uncontested BSA presidential elections last spring, Ali campaigned for "Black Unity of Individuals Laboring to end Dependence" (BUILD), calling on Black students to help themselves, to develop their own resources, and to seek independence from white society...
...originally wanted to move the shelter off its property and into Central Square, a poorer neighborhood which has just started to recover from a two-decade slump. When residents learned that the university wanted to move the "wet" shelter--so called because it does not require residents to seek rehabilitation--from the isolated spot near MIT into their neighborhood, they got upset. And rightly so--wet shelters, when placed in a residential neighborhood, cause problems. Residents of these shelters often spend their days not in rehab but on the streets...
Last week the air was thick with confessions from such workers. "Do you have a Zoe Baird problem?" they asked one another. "Sure," said many, who had never thought to discuss the matter before. Fortunately, few of the confessors were inclined to seek a post with the Clinton Administration...
...many deep-strike bombers and attack aircraft. Powell's report falls well short of Clinton's hopes for a major restructuring of the military, and will play little role in the defense budget the President sends Congress next month. Before then Clinton is likely to visit the Pentagon to seek a truce...
...balance the budget just by cutting benefits to the wealthy, but you can get a lot further than they would like you to believe," says a White House official. Rather than a sharp rise in the overall tax rates, which would spur the wealthy to seek tax shelters abroad, a cut in the spending programs and tax breaks enjoyed by upper-income Americans would better serve economic efficiency and incentives, argues a Clinton aide. "Rich people don't care about higher top rates because their lawyers and accountants can always find ways around them," the official says. "What they care...