Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jury could do anything but sentence him to death--and that anything but simple vengeance would be the reason why. When the day's testimony was over, even Matsch looked shaken. "You're human, and I'm human too," he told the jury. "[But] we are not here to seek revenge against Timothy McVeigh...
...hard D-marks for soft euros," says Paul Horne, a Paris-based international economist with Smith Barney. "If Jospin puts conditions to the Germans that they can't accept, it's goodbye euro." No wonder Kohl made a long phone call to Chirac the day after the election to seek assurances on France's future European policy...
...fashion. Only 31% of twentysomethings in 1973 agreed that money is "a very important personal value." Today 64% of Xers and matures say, "Material things, like what I drive and the house I live in, are really important to me." Only half of boomers feel that way. Fewer twentysomethings seek "a simpler life," and, strikingly, a third of them agree that "the only meaningful measure of success is money...
...past month of the editors of two of the most prominent titles, Esquire and Details. A definition: by "men's magazines," I don't just mean magazines that for whatever reason have a primarily male readership--SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, say, or Rolling Stone or Juggs. I mean magazines that seek to define a masculine life-style, that are about maleness in the way that Martha Stewart Living is about an unnatural hunger for order...
...usual, the European locomotive on this track is Germany and the engineer is Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who announced he will seek re-election yet again next year, mainly to shepherd monetary union and the euro into existence. For its own good, he believes, Germany must be anchored in a strong European Union and not left to throw its weight around between East and West. Chirac demonstrated his commitment to monetary union, if not his political smarts, when he called the snap election in hopes of securing control of his parliament for the next five years. The Benelux countries...