Word: seeks
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McDonald and Judson Lovingood, deputy manager of the shuttle projects office at Marshall, set up a teleconference among engineers and managers at * the Cape, Huntsville and in Utah to discuss the O-ring problem. Before it began, Lovingood got the impression that Thiokol was concerned enough to seek a flight delay. He asked his boss, Stanley Reinartz, shuttle projects manager at Marshall who was then at the Cape, to tell Arnold Aldrich, the overall shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who was also in Florida, that a flight delay was likely. But Reinartz decided to wait until...
...Marcos' request, Laxalt then went to the White House, where he discussed the conversation with Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz. The President repeated his desire for a peaceful, negotiated settlement in the Philippines and said once more that Marcos would be welcome if he decided to seek sanctuary in the U.S. But Reagan said he thought the idea of power sharing was impractical and that it would be undignified for Marcos to stay on as a "consultant...
...legacy of one-man rule. Mindful of the dangers of a political vacuum, she moved swiftly to show that she was in charge. During her first full day as President, she appointed 17 Cabinet ministers and held her first news conference. In an effort to defuse the impulse to seek revenge on Marcos followers, she spoke forcefully of the need for reconciliation. The President, who has frequently called Marcos the "No. 1 suspect" in the 1983 assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., made it clear she would not seek the extradition of Marcos from exile, although...
...week's end Haiti's five-member governing council announced that it would legally seek Duvalier's return from France. Since the two countries have no extradition treaty, the move was seen in Haiti as a face-saving gesture by a regime increasingly regarded as too sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port...
...theme is in fact our own: that a people released from oppression will, of their natural inclinations, seek humane values. A revolutionary thought to the likes of Hobbes, who called democracy an aristocracy of orators, but not so wild an idea to Americans, who over the tortuous and often backsliding years * have seen the theme take hold. History in some of its blacker moments has shown that democracy can twist itself into the tyranny of the many, can run to chaos and go mad; but in the long run, if it is given the long run, it usually turns generous...