Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under this policy, EU members sought their own economic good at others' expense, but Flynn said he hoped the new currency would promote economic growth...
Under this policy, EU members sought their own economic good at others' expense, but Flynn said he hoped the new Euro currency would promote economic growth...
...sought to streamline the department. Helaid off four guard supervisors and thesuperintendent of the force, placing daily guardoperations under the watch of HUPD sergeants...
...safely ensconced in Syria. From there, he directed terror against Turkish targets from P.K.K. bases in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. His goal: to force Ankara to grant independence to the country's 12 million Kurds, part of the estimated 20 million Kurds who straddle five nations. Turkey has sought to eradicate Kurdish nationalism by suppressing their language, culture and political rights. Even so, millions of Turkey's Kurds did not sign up with the P.K.K.'s militant separatism...
...kind of self-dare, I decided to immerse myself in the male-weepie canon, even though this meant viewing certain films I had been avoiding for decades, like Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly and The Great Santini. I also read Death of a Salesman and sought out a recording of the old Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle. Certain themes obviously undergird these works: dying fathers, dying athletes, dead fathers, dead athletes. These are romances, to be sure, but instead of the overblown, tear-jerking gestures of male-female romances, the car crashes and death caves...