Word: seeks
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...Democrats seek to recapture the Senate, they might want to look to Cleland as the candidate with the model playbook. This year's Republican version calls for tagging Democratic congressional candidates as hopelessly liberal, but Guy Millner, the millionaire businessman who is challenging Cleland for the seat of retiring Georgia legend Sam Nunn, is having a hard time making it stick. Millner notes darkly that "the Jane Fondas, the Ted Kennedys, all these kinds of people would love to see Max Cleland get elected." But so far, Georgia's increasingly conservative electorate seems to be resisting Millner's ideological barrage...
...Americans was publicly put on hold for a day. But officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair the damage by confessing their "screw-up" to Kuwait's Emir, and a deployment that Kuwait had in fact urged on Washington quickly went ahead...
...violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...trampolines placed next to our desks like the team on the short-lived software-company sitcom Dweebs. Most of us do not have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season's insipid ad-world sitcom Good Company...
...judge has not yet set a date for the trial to begin. Attorney General Janet Reno has not decided whether to seek the death penalty--something Kaczynski's family, which led investigators to his remote cabin, strongly opposes. In an interview two weeks ago on 60 Minutes, the defendant's mother Wanda Kaczynski argued for mercy: "There are people in this world that are mentally ill," she said, "and are we going to start killing them? What kind of a barbaric society are we heading for?" The California-based prosecution team is expected to file its own recommendations within...