Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Susan whines out against the desperation. It's not tract, but satire, asking that most forbidden of questions: Can anything come between the suburban housewife and her Calvins? Will the quiet wife of a New Jersey hot tub mogul seek excitement in a Susan universe so desperate that it allows for wet armpits? To paraphrase Aristotle, all the pipes in the world can't buy excitement...
...City of Cambridge adopts a removal permit ordinance requiring owners of rent controlled apartments to seek municipal permission before decontrolling units...
Victor said he definitely would not want to end common casting week, and would seek other ways to deal with the shortage. "Since the initiation of Common Casting Week, there have been some phenomenal productions. We're not going to kill fantastic theater," Victor said...
Government borrowing to cover the red ink has kept "real" (that is, inflation-adjusted) interest rates in the U.S. well above comparable rates abroad, pulling in much foreign capital from investors who seek the highest possible return on their savings. Whatever the cause, officials always conceded that the dollar might get too lofty and that intervention on the exchange markets might be needed to bring it down. But they were wary of actually doing it. Privately, some U.S. officials described intervention as "spitting in the wind...
...students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have signed a similar denunciation of SDI. The professors argue that deployment of a Star Wars system could provoke the Soviet Union to build...