Word: seeks
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Wolf says she'll stay in contact with voters, and seek clout by campaigning for U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and President Clinton...
...million to $15 million next year, nearly all of it from Ben's silicon-lined pockets. They also plan to begin selling their flywheel to utilities for stationary power generation next year. Says Ben: "By the end of next year, we will have generated enough risk reduction to seek external funding." Eventually they plan to sell shares to the public. They want to build their own plants to make their own power trains and sell them to car companies. In their vision, "Powered by Rosen" would become a cachet, like "Intel Inside...
...majority of the country, or to his fellow Tutsi, who control the military. At a memorial for massacre victims last July, he declared, "Let me warn the killers and those who sent them: your crimes are the shame of humanity. And let me say to those who seek vengeance, if you too become a killer, God will curse you just as surely as he curses the others...
Hernia surgery is synonymous with painful and slow recovery, which is one reason that only 700,000 out of nearly 5 million U.S. sufferers seek treatment. In repairing a serious groin hernia, surgeons generally stitch in a synthetic screen to cover a tear in the abdominal wall from which a portion of the intestine may protrude. Now, however, they can simply plug the opening with a cone-shaped mesh device. Plugging rather than patching the hole causes less strain on the surrounding tissue and reduces the extent of both surgery and recovery time...
...elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider and as a deficit hawk...