Word: sought
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...gained some momentum right before the Ivy League Championships with a 3-1 record at the Harvard Invitational. With the return of Hart, Harvard sought to win the Ivy tournament...
Thompson's programs have sought to encourage welfare recipients, in particular welfare mothers, to work...
...That much was evident in August when the government banned the Falun Gong religious cult, whose members had sought comfort in its otherworldly explanations of the traumatic social changes under way in China. But the communists are struggling to come up with a coherent ideology to offer a society that it's trying to lead away from the party's own traditional beliefs...
...long as we accept the goals of randomization, we must also support this latest move to reduce blocking group size. Sixteen-person blocking groups were simply too large. Rather than selecting a small group of potential roommates to enter the lottery with, many undergraduates sought to enter their new Houses with an entire social circle already intact. This represented a great obstacle to social mixing and has inhibited the development of a new, post-randomization House life. The ability to block with all of your friends certainly makes one feel safer and more secure, but the comfort of the individual...
Major said he sought elaboration...