Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't a decision made lightly. In the months that followed, Goldin wrestled with the matter, agonizing over what he considered his John Glenn problem. At one point, he sought counsel from Tom Miller, Glenn's oldest friend and Marine Corps comrade. "'Can you imagine if something happened [during the mission]?'" Miller recalls Goldin asking. "'My heart says yes, but my brain says...
...will quit the entire planet and head out for a realm where age doesn't count. Oddly, it was the realization that young people go through the process of aging in space--cardiovascular shifts, immune-system changes, loss of muscle and of bone density--that gave Glenn his long-sought means of getting back to the extra-world that made him. What was a usable scientific rationale for him became a new way to understand space for others. If the young temporarily grow old out there, then space is for the ageless, and the old hero becomes a distinct possibility...
Take, for example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale...
...petition, which sought to limit commercial development of the area and protect existing residences, had hundreds of supporters in the Cambridge community...
...petition sought to limit an inclusionary housing measure which allowed builders to increase the number of units they construct by 30 percent as long as half of those units were used to create affordable housing. La Tremouille said Anderson Petition supporters believed this measure encouraged the eviction of current tenants...