Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the extended deadline and additional publicity efforts, fewer candidates will seek office this year than last year when 175 students entered the race for seats...
...report released this week reveals that two formal complaints of sexual harassment--one in the College and one in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--were reported last year. The individuals filing formal complaints seek both a formal investigation and University discipline of the alleged offender. The report did not specify which department was involved in each of the incidents...
...denied the Army Corps of Engineers a permit to dredge the Hudson. Then the House of Representatives voted this month to kill funding for the project after Congressman Ted Weiss, a Manhattan Democrat, labeled Westway "a real estate boondoggle posing as a highway." New York officials said they would seek to trade in $1.7 billion in federal commitments to Westway for money to build a more modest highway and improve the city's decrepit mass-transit system...
Some playwrights storm to greatness, some proclaim their devotion to great virtue, and some achieve majesty by all the while seeming to seek after something smaller. Athol Fugard uses deceptively simple language and stories to explore vividly specific individuals, yet he makes every wrong step between them seem a natural metaphor for some larger collision of mankind. He knows that the domestic quarrel is the central tragedy of any age. It is this pained acuity about the buffeting nature of daily life, even more than his passionate denunciation of the social system in his native South Africa, that makes Fugard...
...part of Washington had paused and, like gladiators preparing for a mighty struggle, gathered in clusters to pump each other up. Some news organizations crafted questions that might flummox or embarrass the President. A few of the old-line institutions like the Associated Press still caution their reporters to seek enlightenment rather than drama, but they stand in a minority. More of the participants at these events believe that both their editors and the public want to see a confrontation. The White House works to avoid it, so few surprises emerge, though there is endless blathering later about the color...