Word: seeks
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More than 22 percent of the Class of 1989 plans to seek graduate degrees in the arts and sciences, according to Office of Career Services (OCS) survey taken last spring...
...LIFE suspended publication in 1972. Tensions erupted between editors -- text oriented, even at picture magazines -- and some of the more deeply committed photojournalists over what to cover and how. Eugene Smith, one of the masters of the LIFE photo-essay, broke away from the magazine in 1954 to seek, in his view, more profound forms of expression. He spent nearly 20 years in obscure poverty composing lengthy, obsessive projects, finally regaining acclaim with Minimata, his expose of industrial mercury poisoning in Japan...
...days before the session opened, Florida's supreme court ruled that abortion was protected by the state constitution, which contains a right-to-privacy clause approved by the voters in 1980. The court went on to overturn a state law requiring that parents be notified when their teenage daughters seek abortions...
Newly arrived Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson is faced with the challenge of establishing a direction for the college. Some students and administrators believe Radcliffe should seek a greater role in the lives of undergraduates. But it is unclear if that is the most desirable goal...
...third of seven children of an impoverished Appalachian coal miner who moved north to seek work, Braden was born and raised in the industrial town of Monroe, Mich. On his way to play football one day, Vic, then 11, passed the local tennis courts just as someone opened a can of balls. "You could hear the fizz," he recalls. "I could smell the rubber. It was an amazing kind of olfactory thing. I made up my mind I wanted one of those things...