Word: sought
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Although it has disputed the authenticity of that footage, NATO is plainly worried. State Department spokesman James Rubin implicitly sought to distance the U.S. from Rugova last Thursday, pointing out that the moderate leader hadn't been the head of the Kosovar delegation at Rambouillet. "The inference was that Washington didn't consider Rugova the person to deliver a settlement," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller...
...decision to have Kline (seen here with MICHELLE PFEIFFER) withstand 3 1/2 hours of makeup rather than don a donkey suit to play Bottom in the forthcoming remake of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For his version of Shakespeare's tale of nymphs, fairies, queens and mismatched lovers, Hoffman sought to explore the vagaries of romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire for love and the desire to maintain their dignity," he says. Along the way, he unwittingly discovered another conflict between the sexes: "It was a contest to see whether...
...This has become a volatile area of the law," says Cohen. "Reasonable minds differ because of the complexity of the issues, and the result is a lot of indecision and contradictory outcomes." Certainty, however, is what the tobacco industry has always sought: initially by successfully squelching or winning every smoking lawsuit for decades, and lately by trying to strike a nationwide deal that included strict limits on lawsuits. Congress did not buy the nationwide deal, and the recent arrangement with 46 state attorneys general does not cover individual lawsuits. That leaves tobacco companies where they don't want...
...Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world in 20 days. The stakes were different (a purse of $1 million, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch, as opposed to 20,000[pounds] in Verne), but their intent was the same. They sought to prove a point--to themselves and the world...
...denounced it as playing God, and even scientists like James Watson, unraveler of DNA, were worried about tinkering with a process as sacrosanct as procreation. But the debate faded as it became clear that the brave new world of babymaking that Steptoe had ushered in was providing a desperately sought service...