Word: sought
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Redmond is a veteran campaigner as well as atwo-year council member: she sought the vicepresidency last year as well...
...Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) formed to protest these conditions, with Ken Saro-Wiwa as its leader. The peaceful resistance movement sought to raise awareness of the plight of the Ogoni and Ogoniland. It was through this movement that Saro-Wiwa earned his global reputation as a peaceful demonstrator for human rights and environmental responsibility...
...maxim in Washington, as elsewhere, is to be careful of what you wish for, since the gods may grant it. For Republicans who sought a full-blown impeachment process, the problem is figuring out how to retreat now that voters have made clear how unpopular that crusade is. The post-Gingrich turmoil in the G.O.P. House leadership has created a vacuum on the issue. For Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, who wants to bring things to the fastest possible conclusion, that represents an opportunity to act with a minimum of interference from diehards who still want Clinton's head. There...
Today many of the farms soaking up the subsidy are owned by the very entities Newell sought to exclude--corporations. These farms are the size of cities and are run not from farmhouses but from skyscrapers. Some are owned by foreign interests, which are more likely to reside in Munich or Vienna than in rural America...
...granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have sought $750,000 from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission for a new water system. Sorry, comes the reply, there is no money in the budget...