Word: seeks
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...ceilinged room in the Hart Senate Office Building that was as dreary as his speech was soaring, Bob Dole, his prairie voice thick with emotion, said, "I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people and nowhere to go but the White House or home." In front of his Senate colleagues, with whom he is far more comfortable trading quips about subcommittee chairmen, he sounded positively Reaganesque. While his colleagues looked on in sadness, Dole announced that he would resign on or before June 11, "and I will then stand before...
...leads ultimately to utter paralysis and self-destruction. Admiral Boorda may have been particularly susceptible. Throughout his adult life--more than 30 years of challenge in peace and war--his ethic toward problem solving was that of the solitary commander: solve the problem, don't evidence doubt, don't seek help...
...University will not fund the project directly, but the administration has given Kirshner permission to seek donors to raise the $13.7 million. The money will give Harvard a one-fifth share in the Magellan project, collaborating with the University of Arizona, MIT and the University of Michigan...
...somehow work more face time for the candidates into their regular news programming. ABC extended an hour of prime time in the last week of the campaign, inviting the candidates to sit in the same room and have it out, free from journalistic moderation. NBC said it would seek to have the candidates on evening news shows such as Dateline NBC. CBS made a vague promise of "free, unfiltered access" to viewers through its news programs. CNN anted up with five minutes a week for four weeks on Inside Politics. And Fox's Rupert Murdoch last year opened the bidding...
ValuJet is one of a new breed of low-price airlines that seek to take advantage of a large pool of pilots and flight attendants who found themselves out of jobs after layoffs at large airlines. It is so no-frills that ValuJet president Jordan uses a $100 desk he bought at Home Depot. The strategy has proved a success for ValuJet. In 1993 the airline flew to Orlando and Tampa in Florida from Atlanta; today it serves 31 cities in 19 states. It reported that in April it had flown 50% more "revenue passenger miles" than...