Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sought ways to appease the administration, Fallows says that, in retrospect, he over-compensated...
West looks the part. One of the country's most respected authorities on race relations, religion and philosophy, an impassioned and sought-after speaker, and the author of 13 books, West is sharp...
...afternoon of March 9, hundreds of students congregated on Memorial Church steps to stage a good old-fashioned public demonstration. Committed members of activist groups and concerned individuals, they sought two main political objectives: a "living wage" for University employees and the end of Harvard's involvement in overseas sweatshops. A third group, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, protested Harvard's policies on the punishment of sexual assault and rape. Chanting, "Hey Harvard, here's the word, student voices must be heard," the protestors held their ground for almost four hours. Before they finally disbanded, Harvard announced the adoption...
While the war instilled the veterans withdiscipline and experience, the GI Bill gave themthe chance to apply that dedication to theirstudies, and the veterans sought to take fulladvantage...
...deeper trouble should be sought at sources that lie upriver, a generation in the past. Abolish adolescence? We should have thought of that 30 or 35 years ago and terminated what became the prolonged adolescence of the baby boomers. The grownups in charge in the '60s lost control of American society. The moral center of gravity shifted from middle-aged authority to youthful impulse. So did the commercial center of gravity: the boomers were a gold mine. Now we live in an enduring vacuum of grownups, taken from us in the way that blight obliterated the American...