Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this does not mean that China is about to embrace capitalism full tilt. Deng and his collaborators have stretched Marxism as it has not been stretched before, but they have yet to define the political and economic structure they seek in its stead. "The Chinese are not sure where they are going," says a Western economist who has served as a consultant in Peking. "There seems to be no overall plan." Deng's goal, pragmatic to the core, is to pursue whatever makes China strong...
...January 1976, the regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) director denied District 65's request for recognition as an acceptable bargaining unit for the 800 Medical Area clerical and technical employees. The decision upheld Harvard's contention that the employees should seek a University-wide clerical union. It also made a formal union election impossible...
...petition, which has already been signed and verified by the Cambridge Election Commission, defines pornography as the "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures or words." The ordinance, sponsored by the Women's Alliance Against Pornography, would permit a victim to seek civil damages against the maker, distributor, seller or distributor of anything deemed sexually dehumanizing...
...league's policy permits club owners to order on-the-spot drug tests if they have "reasonable cause" to do so. If a player refuses to submit, he can be suspended and then appeal the suspension to a grievance board. The National Basketball Association permits a player to seek voluntary treatment without any penalty, but anyone who does not do so and is found by the owners to be a drug user can be prohibited from playing...
...ways of manipulating the news by people in authority are many: creating false impressions, pretesting the public reaction to an action before taking it, even saying one thing while preparing to do the opposite. Those who manipulate the news now have a clear advantage over those who seek to report it and over a public trying to fathom what it all means. The ability to manipulate public opinion was systematized under Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first President to give importance to the role of press secretary. It has become an art form under Ronald Reagan. The press's constant worry...