Word: seeks
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Republicans today will seek to expand on their 1994 victories, when they captured control of the U.S. Congress and a majority of governorships and state legislatures...
...worth at least $75 million, his share of the $600 million Huffco oil fortune). The top floor of the Huffington home has been transformed into a suite of offices for her, housing a full-time staff of three. Her assistants research and edit political columns, monographs and speeches that seek to advance Gingrich's cause and torment his rivals...
Martin warns that Promise Keepers must keep alert for all the usual pitfalls facing fast-growing revival movements: financial monkeyshines, personal malfeasance and demagoguery. "There is no doubt that the leaders of the religious right will see this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist...
...bleeding ulcers among people with rheumatoid arthritis. These patients often take the pills thinking they will relieve bleeding that can occur with high doses of rheumatoid-arthritis drugs like ibuprofen. While neither H2 antagonists nor antacids cause bleeding, they may keep those with ulcers from recognizing the need to seek help. H2 blockers still have fewer side effects than antacids. (Tagamet may interfere with the body's ability to metabolize certain drugs, but the incidence, say researchers, is not significant.) Meanwhile, calcium-based antacids like Tums and Rolaids can occasionally contribute to kidney stones, and aluminum- and magnesium-based ones...
...employees worry that administrators may be too eager to seek outside contracts, which could save costs in terms of employee benefits and union salaries...