Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not turn away from the task of seeking equity simply because the goals we seek require complex mechanisms. What's at stake is our image of ourselves. What should spur us on is the knowledge that 37 million of our neighbors don't have financial protection from the costs of illness. What should help mobilize us is the fact that if we fail to act, tomorrow or the next day or week or year you or I may be among those who help swell that number...
...outspoken hard-liner on arms control, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle has long been scornful of those who would seek accommodation with the Soviet Union at any cost. Last week Perle aimed his criticism at the foreign and defense ministers of the NATO alliance. Speaking at a defense symposium in Munich, Perle complained that the ministers usually meet to produce bland communiques that "paper over differences, avoid controversy ((and)) placate public opinion . . . rather than declaring our most fundamental convictions...
What is a billion dollars these days? Merely one-half of 1% of the annual federal deficit. But such a sum would seem beyond the grandest aspirations of higher education. Not so. Stanford University is announcing this week that it will seek $1.1 billion in a five-year fund-raising drive. Aimed at upgrading science research facilities, helping the growing number of students who need financial aid and increasing the endowment from $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, the campaign is by far the most ambitious in the history of private education. Stanford's closest rival, Columbia University...
...high-tech has-been. The Minneapolis-based company was piling up a staggering 1985 loss of more than $567 million (revenues that year: $3.7 billion). Bankers were refusing to extend the company any more short-term credit, while Wall Streeters were whispering that the firm might have to seek Chapter 11 protection. But today Control Data is running smoothly again, thanks to an overhaul in which the company dumped unprofitable sidelines, sharpened its focus on computer technology and cut its payroll from 54,000 at the end of 1984 to 34,000 in 1986. "This is one of the most...
...past year, not a single reporter for a major U.S. publication or TV network has been allowed past Las Trojes to spend time with the contras. Questions about whether the contras received money from U.S. arms sales to Iran dominate the headlines and the Reagan Administration vows to seek continued aid for the rebels, but there is little reporting on exactly how the contras are faring in the field. Even after thousands of newly armed rebels began streaming into Nicaragua in December for what contra and U.S. officials describe as a make- or-break offensive, reporters have had no better...