Word: seek
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Behind the Warsaw gesture was Ostpolitik, the bold policy initiated by Brandt to seek reconciliation with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, a stance that would be adopted by his successors in the Chancellor's office in Bonn. When Brandt became Chancellor in 1969, West Germany still refused to recognize the postwar boundaries in Eastern Europe or admit that Germany would remain divided for the foreseeable future. Brandt swiftly changed much of that, signing nonaggression pacts with the U.S.S.R. and Poland in 1970 and ^ renouncing claims to 40,000 sq. mi. of former German territory incorporated into Poland. He also...
...week before Hill's appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bush decried the measure as a "quota bill." Shortly after the hearings, Bush made a quick peace with the legislation. As a result, harassment victims, formerly able to claim only back pay and reinstatement, can now seek federal damages awards, both compensatory and punitive...
...Rhodes' case is considered a success. More often, women seek in-house channels to make their discomfort known. "The vast majority of women try to report sexual harassment informally within their company," says Helen Neuborne, executive director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. "It's the companies' failure to respond that leads to lawsuits...
Protesters held posters bearing slogans such as"Qualified Minority Professors: Seek and You ShallFind," "Actions Speak Louder than Words" and"Actions: Not Bad Faith Negotiations." Theychanted "No justice, no peace," before disbanding20 minutes later
...comet courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself. Is there room for optimism? Yes, but only if one can imagine the people of 2050 looking back at the mad spasm of consumption and thoughtless waste in the 20th century as an aberration in human history...