Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students have charged that the new alcohol policy, adopted in October, has dramatically increased the cost of successful house parties. House committees, students say, have been forced to seek alternative means--including creative themes and expensive bands--to lure partygoers, and have had to hire bouncers to check...
When Savimbi came to Washington last month to seek support for his guerrilla organization, UNITA, in its struggle against the Marxist regime in Angola, he hired Black, Manafort. What the firm achieved was quickly dubbed "Savimbi chic." Doors swung open all over town for the guerrilla leader, who was dapperly attired in a Nehru suit and ferried about in a stretch limousine. Dole had shown only general interest in Savimbi's cause until Black, the Senate majority leader's former aide, approached him on his client's behalf. Dole promptly introduced a congressional resolution backing UNITA's insurgency and sent...
...failure of Hussein's initiative leaves behind lots of losers. The Reagan Administration is now without an ongoing peace strategy for the Middle East. Hussein is more vulnerable than ever to the Syrians and to his own Palestinian population. He will probably feel a need to seek closer ties with his old adversary Syrian President Hafez Assad. The breakdown in talks may precipitate a new round of violence by Palestinians, who see diplomacy failing once again to resolve their problems. And it vastly increases the likelihood that Peres will be obliged to exchange jobs in the fall with Foreign Minister...
Flarescu sees Dukakis as a potential power at the convention even if he should decide not to seek the nomination. "It is very likely that a national candidate would offer him a position...
...Harvard, students agree to abide by the rules. If we cannot operate in accordance with the college's rules, we are asked to leave. Likewise, those professors who cannot perform their duties within the time-frame established by the rules and traditions of the college should be told to seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will literally consign the entire student body to unnecessary days of drudgery. Steven Maddox...