Word: seeks
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...conflict." U.S. military planners last week were hewing closely to Cordesman's line and planning for contingencies based on the nature of any foreseeable Iranian provocations. If Iran were to fire upon an American vessel with its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles, for example, the U.S. would most likely seek to destroy the missile sites. Bombers aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation, based just outside the gulf, could be dispatched on short notice. The Silkworms, situated in isolated spots along the gulf and manned by small crews, could be taken out cleanly...
...from encouraging the free discussion of public issues, the FCC argued, Government regulation had a "chilling" effect on TV. Said FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick: "We seek to extend to the electronic press the same First Amendment guarantees that the print media have enjoyed since our country's inception." Or as Meredith's attorney, Floyd Abrams, put it: "This is the beginning of the end of government control over the content of what appears on television...
Golfers, like inept mechanics, are quick to blame their tools. If their tee shots wander or their putts fall short, they are more likely to lay out $900 for new equipment than to practice or seek instruction. This faith in technology -- and in throwing money at a problem -- has brought thousands of duffers and millions of dollars to an eccentric California clubmaker named Clovis ("Duke") Duclos...
When Waylon Nickell and Donald Seek of King County, Wash., went scavenging for aluminum cans in a ravine south of Seattle late last month, they found much & more than they had bargained for. Nestled amid the weeds and debris near the bottom of the slope was a human skull. The next day police uncovered the remains of Cindy Anne Smith, a 17-year-old King County woman who had been missing for more than three years. The grisly discovery brought to 37 the number of young women murdered in a series of slayings that has baffled police since July...
...chose not to put them to a vote at the plenum. Some Western analysts took this as a sign that he had yet to overcome resistance from conservatives among the Central Committee's 307 members, 60% of whom are holdovers from the Brezhnev era. Gorbachev is widely expected to seek a purge of such foot draggers at a national party conference that he has scheduled for June 1988. Nonetheless, the plenum left little doubt about his political strength, which was underscored by the naming of three of his supporters to the ruling Politburo. The new appointments meant that Gorbachev allies...