Word: seeks
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Many city residents predicted a particularly high turnout this year as a result of two controversial races. For the first time since 1961, three incumbent city councillors did not seek re-election, and 28 candidatees have waged a bitter campaign to fill the nine seats...
Feinman says that because each councillor is responsible to a small minority of the voters, there is no incentive to seek common ground. As a result, he says, councillors spend more time arguing than trying to implement effective policies...
...Morgan, for one, finds little substance in complaints that 1-2-3 would allow landlords to exclusively seek out wealthy tenants...
Executives of Unisys Corp., some of whom have pleaded guilty to various conspiracy and bribery charges in the Pentagon procurement scandal, pressured others to make illegal contributions to D'Amato's 1986 campaign and then seek reimbursement from the Defense Department...
Despite these conclusions, the Administration is using the furor over Panama to seek more leeway to assist a coup that, while not intended to kill Noriega or another foreign leader, might wind up doing just that. At the same time, Bush last week assured the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he would give it "timely notice" of covert actions, at least within a matter of days (in contrast to the ten months that Ronald Reagan once took...