Word: sought
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This may, admittedly, be my own fault. I have, until this point, subscribed whole heartedly to Harvard's scholastic model. I have bought into the prevailing system of incentives, sought the celebrated rewards, tried to avoid the relevant punishments. In so doing, I have, for over three years now, conditioned myself to answer the questions posed by Governor Bush in a fundamentally unsatisfying way. How should I live? I should live a life of ambition, intensity and striving. What should I love? I should love reason, excellence and achievement. Indeed, these prescriptions are not without their payoff. They illuminate...
...recognizing the health hazards of smoking, Philip Morris and other tobacco companies may just be attempting to avert legal action such as that undertaken by many state attorneys general in recent years. Lawsuits since 1995 have sought to make cigarette makers reimburse the costs of smoking-related health care, arguing that companies had intentionally misled smokers into thinking that cigarettes were safe. Openly stating the risks now could free companies of any charges of misrepresentation in the future...
...offered what could be the first really strong ray of hope in their struggle against this relentless killer. In a report in the journal Science, the gene-splicing wizards at Amgen, one of biotechnology's most successful companies, announced that they had succeeded in identifying and isolating a long-sought enzyme--a so-called protease--that may play a key role in creating the biochemical chaos in the brain that causes Alzheimer...
...conventional wisdom said Gore's substantive message was strong. He attacked Bradley's plan to spend the federal budget surplus and sought repeatedly to distinguish his position from that of his opponent...
...sought-after rings, the Crimson will need to continue its stellar play in its final two league games against Dartmouth and Brown...