Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders. But these travels took him out of the main action in Washington. That will now change. Muskie intends to reduce his frenetic national speaking schedule and concentrate more fully on Senate business. Though his speeches will be fewer, he will try to make them deeper. Muskie will also seek to address a national audience and to reinforce the popular impression of him as a party spokesman and leader who must be considered in all 1972 plans...
...appointments and if so, what rank, 2) their standing in professional societies, and 3) whether they are board-certified specialists. According to these standards, doctors choose a topnotch doctor in only 33% of the cases involving a minor illness. With a more serious illness, they are more likely to seek the most expert care. But Bynder found it "particularly striking" that even in such instances, they buy the best in only 55% of the cases...
...contract to build a huge shipping and industrial complex. Though they get most of the publicity, they are only the two most conspicuous men in a large group of Greek shipping magnates, most of whom are known in nautical circles as the "other Greeks." While the Golden Greeks ardently seek publicity, the other Greeks shun it. Collectively, they have a far greater impact on world business than Onassis or Niarchos, and individually some have become about as wealthy -or even more...
...write honestly "as far as possible." To choose subjects that are not dangerous. To write in allegories. To seek out cracks in the censorship. To circulate your works from hand to hand in manuscript form. To do at least something: a sort of compromise solution. I was one of those who chose this third way. But it didn't work for me. The censors always managed to bring me to my knees. My anxiety to save at least something from what I had written, so that something would reach the reader, meant only that...
...result, U.S. battlefield tactics have undergone little more than semantic changes. Washington no longer uses the hawkish words "maximum pressure" to describe the allied pursuit of the Communists. The new term is "protective reaction," which has a less aggressive ring to it. In fact, the U.S. still continues to seek the enemy-but the enemy is less evident. "In principle, we are doing precisely what we have been doing all along," explains one high-ranking U.S. officer. "Lull? What lull?" asks a G.I. at a fire base near Saigon. "We still patrol every day." Although large-unit allied sweeps have...