Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring myself to defend many of the films now made; I can't even defend those Dole approves of. Hollywood must examine itself. Its greed is sickening. It must judge the social impact, not just the popularity impact, of what it does. So must politicians who seek to exploit cultural values...
Ultimately, culture reflects society -- for a violent nation, violent amusements. But if Senator Dole and his fellow conservatives are serious about elevating American tastes, they'd do better to encourage greater variety in culture than to seek to homogenize it even further. Let them increase the NEA budget until it at least equals that for military bands. Let them restore to the public schools the art and music and performance programs that have been cut in the name of "getting back to basics." Let them support public radio and television -- or not complain when the kids watch Beavis and Butthead...
...drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation of greed...
Duehay says that although he speaks to Reeves regularly, he is unsure whether the mayor will seek a CCA endorsement...
...Meaningful recruitment is more than passiveadvertising in a newspaper or a public affairscable channel," the plan reads. "It is especiallyimportant to seek persons whose interests rest inpublic service or those who seek career pathswhere their skills...will be appreciated...