Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking a grant can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Two young Chicago women have now simplified the process by establishing Funding Sources Clearinghouse Inc. (FSC), the nation's first computerized data service that attempts to match the grant seeker with the grant maker...
Robert Kennedy's life is testament to the changeability of man. The tough-talking aide to Senator Joe McCarthy, by the end of his life, had been transformed by the current of events into a passionate seeker after justice, repudiating a war he had helped plan, questioning the Great Society, testing the limits of liberalism. The napalm and the hungry children and the urban rubble had left their mark on this man. He had heard the chants of the demonstrators, seen the blank, glum stares of the unemployed, felt the smoldering anger that erupted at Watts and Detroit and Neward...
...many, it might seem a strange concern for a state whose vast prairies roll wide and empty to the horizon, whose lonely mountains range back toward the cloud-capped Continental Divide. But these spaces and slopes are more vulnerable than the site seeker might think. Take so-called "view locations"-sites high on the slopes of the Rockies, which real estate men have been selling off by thousands from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. Unpolluted air. Privacy. Dazzling vistas. House tastefully set amidst thick stands of ponderosa or lodgepole pines. No insults to the visiting...
...ordinary sun seeker soon found it almost impossible even to reach the supposedly public shoreline. At the accessible public beaches, concession owners, backed by musclemen euphemistically described as lifeguards, forced tourists off the sands unless they were willing to pay for beach mattresses, umbrellas or change-of-costume cabins...
...perceives a great uneasiness that maybe all this knowledge is a bad thing, that man is necessarily being forced into a moral dilemma. Being a rationalist, I cannot believe that it is better to be an ostrich than to be the thing that most distinguishes man from ape, a seeker after knowledge for the sake of itself. Misuse of knowledge results from ignorance. To believe otherwise is to believe that being out of contact with reality is less likely to lead to bad effects than is sanity. If man fails the evolutionary test, it will be because he knew...