Word: seeks
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Several of the projects, including the Kennedy School addition, will seek ways to avoid the city requirement that new buildings provide parking spaces under or next to them. The Zoning Board may decide that these developers can compensate for the lack of parking by paying a fee or providing space for cars elsewhere...
Peres, who has met often, though unofficially, with Hussein over the years, said he believes that such a conference is the only hope left for peace in the region. He has said that he has received assurances that the Soviets will not seek to play a major role in any conference and that Israel would have the right to leave the conference at any time...
...members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading of the Constitution so constricted as to threaten basic principles of social justice and individual liberties that the nation now takes for granted...
...Court, a fight has been raging over just what kind of constitutional construction Bork would practice there. His writings and public statements, plentiful and forcefully expressed, make clear his scorn for many of the court's landmark decisions; they are less clear about which of those he would actually seek to overturn. Despite the instances where Bork has stepped back from earlier positions, and the ambiguity of some of his appeals court rulings, one thing is clear from his 25 years of unflinching and outspoken legal advocacy: he is not the mainstream legal thinker that the White House...
...judicial practice of reaching decisions that accord with earlier rulings. He disagrees, for instance, with the "commerce clause" decisions of the New Deal court -- a series of rulings that upheld the power of the Federal Government to regulate business in many fields. But he maintains that he would not seek to overturn them because they form the basis for many subsequent court decisions and administrative practices. Would he likewise defer to other ! past rulings, notably the abortion decision? Bork declines...