Word: seeks
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...compound, where China's leaders live and work. The dead apparently did not matter either to the aging revolutionaries who came to power by force 40 years ago -- and used force to keep it. Reason itself did not seem to matter. The government that once trumpeted the need to "seek truth from facts" manufactures facts to buttress lies...
...else failed, Time could seek a so-called white knight to save it from Paramount's grasp. But almost any bidder with enough financial backing could jump into the fray without being invited. Moreover, Wall Street analysts believe that all three companies are now up for sale, since their stock is falling into the hands of speculators who will gladly sell to the highest bidder. "I bet none of the three companies will exist a year from now," says Ellen Greenspan, a leading Wall Street arbitrager...
...country's gerontocracy, led by Deng Xiaoping. But though the crackdown was obviously meant to intimidate the people-power movement, it could have the opposite effect. Disaffected Chinese citizens are calling for the people "to unite in the open or underground," as one of them put it, "to seek revenge for all the deaths...
Last January, Vellucci announced he would not seek another term on the City Council. His decision marked the end of an era in city politics. Since the early 1940s, the City Council has been divided between members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), an alliance of good-government reformers whom Vellucci disparages as the "goo-goos," and neighborhood-based politicians running as Independents...
...what have students gained if their education was solely derived from friends, roommates or clubs. They could get the same experience from a new job and home, any other college or any good summer camp. Why go to Harvard and waste money, if all you seek is social experience...