Search Details

Word: seeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

That report found a Harvard-owned building at 10 Mt Auburn St. to be "without historical significance," according to O'Neill, but since that time, Sullivan has indicated he will recommend the Cambridge commission seek to prevent the University from razing the building

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Proposed Bill May Curb Harvard Renovation Plans | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...Kilson to even suggest that for one to become more effective in combating a problem such as Black poverty, one must seek after a cosmopolitan identify and environment, and keep away from ethnocentric issues (issues specifically pertaining to Black people) is ludicrous. In fact it would seem almost intuitive to say that the best leader of any group are likely to come from those who have shown the most interest and involvement in that group, no matter who that group is. This goes also for the Black poor, so I can only hope that Mr. Kilson's interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future Is Now | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

These proposals include commitments to engage in "intensive dialogue" with companies that do business in South Africa, and to "vote...shares and to seek other means of persuasion to induce companies...to implement...anti-apartheid principles." These comprehensive plans would seem to lend credibility to the Corporation's argument that it can accomplish more to bring about change in South Africa by retaining its shares than it can by pulling out altogether...

Author: By Tina E. Smith, | Title: On Harvard's South | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

Gibbons added he believed it was not worth "the expending of the Commonwealth's limited resources" to seek for the remaining...

Author: By D. JOSEPH Menn, | Title: Nobel Laureate and Others Continue Apartheid Sit-Ins | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy's help, that the murder was committed by high members of his own department who have become involved in the drug trade. The hunter becomes the hunted, and Book, wounded, is forced to seek refuge with the boy and his mother among the Amish, the Pennsylvania Dutch folk who live and dress in the manner of the 18th century and believe in nonviolence as a religious principle. Amused and baffled by them at first, Book gradually begins to appreciate the values of these simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrison Ford: Stardom Time for a Bag of Bones | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Previous | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | Next