Word: seeks
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...forefront of national political debate this summer, when Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and Labor Party leader, sought early elections over the unrelated issue of an international peace conference on the Middle East. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which has only four Knesset seats, seized the occasion to seek a major concession. In return for supporting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's opposition to new elections, Shas demanded that Shamir's Likud bloc back the Orthodox definition of who is a Jew. Shamir tried to ram through a vote to that effect in July, but a handful of Likud members defected...
...seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states, so-called Son of Sam laws (named for the serial murderer who killed six young women in New York City in 1976 and 1977) now seek to ensure that victims rather than criminals share whatever profits are made as spinoffs from crimes...
Last month, Secretary of State George Shultz said the administration intended to seek $270 million in military and humanitarian aid for the rebels over 18 months...
...their students in terms of grade competition." Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus
...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1984, a major reason was the alleged bad management and antidemocratic sentiments of the organization under its director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Citing the same reason, Britain left in 1985. Last year M'Bow announced he would not seek a third six-year term, and there was some hope that the U.S. and Britain might rejoin the agency, whose programs have been crippled by the loss of Washington's $48 million annual contribution...