Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to military action against our country should be supported. Acts of war against us must be answered. But Monday night's air raid should not be supported as the first step in the long march to end terrorism. We blind ourselves to the causes of terrorism if we seek to end it by answering it in kind. Libya was not practicing terrorism, it was making war. If we fail to understand this distinction, the legacy of Monday night's bombing raid could be a tragic...
...billion foreign debt last February than plummeting oil prices made the agreement obsolete. The free fall is knocking at least $5 billion off the country's petroleum revenues, which account for more than 90% of its foreign exchange, and could force President Jaime Lusinchi to return to bankers to seek better terms. With the country now in the third year of a recession, Lusinchi has little political room to maneuver. He has already promised that a job-creating $5 billion public-works program will not be touched. Venezuelans are counting on their nation's $13.7 billion of foreign-exchange reserves...
What else can America do to prevent another oil shock? The question has taken on renewed urgency in Washington. Among other proposals, the Administration wants to streamline the process for licensing nuclear-power utilities and plans to seek more money to support research into clean-burning coal plants. But the most talked-about concept in Congress is a tax on imported oil, which would pay the twin dividends of reducing the budget deficit and helping to prop up domestic suppliers by increasing the price. Says Heller: "The gains we make from the drop in oil prices ought to give...
...been charged with criminal homicide, rape, deviant sexual acts, robbery, indecent assault, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, and receiving stolen property. Authorities plan to seek the death penalty, said District Attorney Donald Corriere...
...work really hard with a population which has had a lot of difficulty with government. It took a long time for them to trust us," Hines says, adding that refugees are more likely to seek private sources for help than rely on city services...