Word: seek
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Timothy E. Wirth '61 (D-Colo.), who did not seek reelection as Senator, is the top candidate for both Secretary of Interior and head of the Environmental Protection Agency...
McKay said the council will not seek a share inthe profits if events prove successful.Crimson File PhotoSTEVEN N. KALKANIS settles into his seat asthe new Undergraduate Council vice chair. He waselected to the position last night, beating outtwo junior contenders for the spot...
...received with extreme piety. These artists, all dead, now have a world audience they could only have dreamed of fitfully when they were alive. We gaze at their frail icons with reverence -- the replays of French Cubism with sturgeons, Cyrillic letters and Tolstoyan beards playing hide-and-seek among their facets; the posters exhorting us to "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge"; the constructions of workers' materials like tin and rope and painted wood; the disembodied black and red squares of now cracking paint. French gallerygoers 100 years ago never felt like this about the art of the French...
...January, at age 60, years after he stepped down as head coach of the 49ers, Walsh decided to seek the sublime again, leaving the television booth and a lucrative contract as an analyst of N.F.L. games for NBC. To the surprise of many, perhaps even himself, he took a pay cut to $150,000 a year (plus fringes) to become head coach at a school where athletes can conjugate a verb, carry on a conversation and occasionally play a little football. Walsh described the feeling upon his return home to a campus where he last coached 14 years...
Both the Reagan and Bush Administrations have avidly sought the group's counsel. Not to be outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has traveled to Miami's Little Havana to seek Cuban-American money and Mas' support. In Congress the foundation was the major force behind the creation of Radio and TV Marti, the U.S.-sponsored propaganda stations beamed into Cuba. Outside the legislative realm, the group won the right to prescreen Cuban immigrants headed for the U.S. from third countries, and last year it rammed through regulations limiting the money Cuban exiles can send to relatives back home...