Word: seeker
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...heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials complain that...
...seeking $1.5 million in back taxes and penalties from Jon and Robin. (The amount would eventually drop to $36,787, atheist lawyers have said.) And there was the payback for Madalyn's tendency to litigate. In September 1987, she sued for control of a California atheist organization called Truth Seeker. (The bid failed.) Truth Seeker's furious owner countersued American Atheists under a federal racketeering law. The dispute eventually ate up more than $500,000 in legal fees; at one point Madalyn was so sure of losing that she told an employee not to be surprised if he came...
...past 15 years, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to ask questions that seem obvious only in retrospect and to probe key issues others have overlooked. It's a trait that does not endear him to some of his rivals. A few have accused Ho of being a publicity seeker who is giving AIDS patients false hope. Upon examination, however, most of the accusations appear to spring from professional jealousy. "David is the type of individual whom I feel particularly good about when he achieves success," says Dr. George Shaw, one of Ho's strongest competitors, who runs a state...
...miles off the coast of Newfoundland and 2 1/2 dark and chilly miles below the surface, to shoot footage. That meant nearly three hours drifting to the bottom of the sea, packed with two crew members into a sphere about 7 ft. in diameter. Cameron, an inveterate thrill seeker, loved...
...theaters across the country last week (see review). Rather, it is a slice of the real-life science that inspired Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg, creators of the dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park, to make the movie in the first place. For Davies-Jones is not some casual thrill seeker but a serious scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. Over the past 2 1/2 decades, he and his colleagues have revolutionized the study of tornadoes, teaching deskbound meteorologists to pack up their instruments and take them into the field...