Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet ministers turned their thoughts to clearing their appointment calendars and hiring campaign planes, buses and walkie-talkies, while workers distributed campaign posters and thousands of beribboned lapel rosettes in Tory blue, Labor red and Alliance gold. Buckingham Palace was alerted that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher might suddenly seek an audience with Queen Elizabeth...
Akron is stunned at the loss of about 450 jobs. Mayor Don Plusquellic tried to dissuade Nevin from making the move, but found him "adamant." Two shareholder lawsuits seek to block the relocation. They charge that it would waste money and that Firestone directors did not let shareholders in on the decision...
Love is not an easy game to play, particularly when the jousters cannot decide whether they seek passion or dispassion, rapturous attachment or jaded detachment. In the megalomaniacal gambitry of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a glittering epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos set on the eve of revolution in 18th century France, the only thing more dangerous than a seducer's assailing a person of virtue is the seducer's somehow falling in love: the conflict between the rakehell's manipulative pride and his newly vulnerable passion ignites everything in its path, leaving him and his partners burned-out husks, dead...
...calm public outrage. Lawrence Singleton, 59, was convicted in 1979 of kidnaping and raping a 15-year-old hitchhiker, then chopping off her forearms with an ax. He left her to die in a culvert beside a rural Northern California road. But the girl survived the attack, managed to seek out assistance and later helped convict her tormentor. When Singleton was paroled two weeks ago, after serving nearly eight years of a 14-year, four-month sentence, local officials across the state took court action to ensure that he would not settle in their communities...
...last week Apple announced plans to set up a well-financed, independent software company that could eventually rank among the industry's top five producers. The new concern will initially develop software only for Apple machines under an unspecified non-Apple name. The company will aim in part to seek out hot new ideas from small-time independent programmers who lack the resources to market their products. So, just like Apple's first computer, the next software breakthrough may be discovered in somebody's garage...