Word: seeks
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Fitzsimmons notes that Harvard recruiters do seek out talented students in inner-city and rural high schools. But since these high schools generally have fewer resources, it's more difficult to find inner-city and rural students who look qualified on paper...
...housing vouchers appears to be up against is not philosophical opposition but something more visceral. Displaying symptoms of the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome, Republicans, including House majority leader Dick Armey, have staunchly opposed voucher programs that might lead poor and disproportionately black public-housing residents to seek housing in the mostly white suburbs. Freshman Congressman Robert Ehrlich Jr., who represents the white, working-class suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, has even introduced legislation to cut off money for voucher programs ordered by a federal judge in his district. "People who have worked their entire lives...
From music and drama courses to SAT preparation classes, from family dinners to weekend retreats and summer camps, organizations in Area Four seek to expose residents to the opportunities they might pursue in life...
...town boy made good that everyone takes him for; in fact, he's lonely and deeply in debt. As Sebastian searches for a way to change his life, Kip Dixon (Jed Silverstein), Bernadette's husband, undergoes a similar crisis: he decides to quit his job as a dentist to seek a life as an artist, feeling that he has undergone a spiritual rebirth...
...said he was concerned that the proposal does not allow these students to seek an outside evaluation...