Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure, TV's first and still preeminent music-video channel is in no danger of demise. MTV is now available in 35.8 million cable homes, up from 2.5 million when it started. Though the number of viewers at any given time is relatively small, advertisers continue to seek MTV's desirable teenage audience. Net revenues have risen steadily (from $71 million in 1984 to $111 million in 1986, according to industry figures), and last year MTV turned a profit of $47 million...
...hopes that you will always play sports, just as ruthlessly as you play sports now. He hopes that you will always seek the company of books, including the trashy romances; that you will always be curious about the news, as long as you do not mistake the news for life. Believe it or not, he even hopes that you will always be crazy about clothes, particularly once you establish your own source of income -- fashion plate, charge plate. You seem to know the difference between vanity and style. On you high style looks good...
...line like this can be found in most films about Vietnam, films that seek to portray a tragically mistaken policy of a great nation sucked into a faraway land it did not know, to fight a war it could...
...directionless activity. Except for Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He knows where he is headed. He introduced a bill (S1327) that prohibits the Administration from reflagging Kuwaiti vessels but urges a "United Nations peacekeeping force to protect nonbelligerent shipping in the Persian Gulf and to seek an early end to the Iran-Iraq war." (It would, of course, be a late end, the Secretary-General having tried for years for an early...
...cross-referenced not only to the historical past but to his other books. For example, the fictional heroine, Caroline Sanford, is Charles Schuyler's granddaughter and thus linked to Burr and 1876; she has an affair with an equally fictional Congressman named James Burden Day, who will one day seek the presidency in Washington...