Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serves an even more important function. According to Juanita Gibson, a teacher at Cleveland Avenue, when children are used to playing together, they figure out a way to handle differences. But now, when kids get into a fight, instead of resolving it on their own, they are liable to seek adult intervention...
...people from outside the political process, attracted much more interest than was expected. Politicians, so used to wheeling and dealing, suddenly found themselves having to come to terms with elected delegates who rejected the rigid constraints or parliamentary part politics, and who had come to debate issues, not seek political advantage...
Such Knowledge is critical for pharmaceutical companies, which must constantly seek out new drugs to interact with new targets to find new cures, and Millennium already has lucrative alliances with six members of "big pharma," including Monsanto and Eli Lilly...
...used in many contexts to fondle the difficulties John Paul II has frequently expressed about capitalism. In his long travails, Karol Wojtyla has spoken critically about Western economic arrangements, and it was this theme that caught the opportunistic eye of Gerasimov. Didn't communism, like early Christianity, seek to eliminate poverty? Was not the communist ideal an expression of Christian concern for the communal ownership of property...
...Duane Silverstein, executive director of the Goldman Foundation in San Francisco, which hands out annual $100,000 prizes to environmentalists. As a result, environmentalism can expect to attract more Mitrauds, with aspirations that flow beyond the local aquifer. "I am," Mitraud admits, "very ambitious." She has no plans to seek political office, only to acquire a Ph.D...