Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crop of 400,000 customers and only 39 branch offices across the country, Amica has consciously avoided increasing its size to match its reputation. Says Amica Vice President Charles E. Horne: "We address a very small segment of the market, and we try to do it well. We simply seek not to be the biggest but to be the best...
Finishing the bottle, and not yet drunk enough to sleep out in the cold, he gathers his blanket around his neck and heads for the subways beneath city hall, where hundreds of the homeless seek warmth. Once inside, the game of cat-and-mouse begins with the police, who patrol the maze of tunnels and stairways and insist that everybody remain off the floor and keep moving. Sitting can be an invitation to trouble, and the choice between sleep and warmth becomes agonizing as the night wears...
More importantly, we must consider the economic need that drives Mexicans to cross the border and seek work in California and other southwestern states. Widespread corruption and government control have wrecked the Mexican economy to the point that jobs are simply not available. Jobs available for Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are perhaps poor by American stan dards, but pay and conditions are vastly superior to what is available in Mexico...
...page study, the 21-member panel, which was chaired by Lew Allen Jr., director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, argued that current controls were excessive. Despite the restrictions, the Soviets manage to obtain much of the sensitive technology they seek, said the group. Many of Moscow's gains come through espionage or illegal diversions from legitimate foreign customers. (One coup involved sophisticated look-down radar, originally a U.S. monopoly, now standard equipment on the latest Soviet MiG aircraft.) Meanwhile, friendly customers in Western Europe and Asia are increasingly looking outside the U.S. for goods on the dual...
...battleground that Beirut has become, no one is safe. Two French newsmen, Reporter Paul Marchand, 27,and Reporter-Photographer Roger Auque, 31, were well aware of that last week as they talked with Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, who was in Beirut again to seek the release of foreigners held by Islamic terrorists. Asked which hostage Waite was trying to free, Marchand jokingly pointed to himself and Auque and replied, "All the hostages -- present and future...