Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state job and too emotionally distressed to function sexually wasn't convincing. Not in the light of her merit raises, her own testimony that there had been no retaliation or the fact that she had never complained to a supervisor, filed a complaint, missed a day of work or sought out a counselor. A single proposition, the judge said, was not enough to create a hostile environment. When Clinton allegedly exposed himself and asked Jones to "kiss it," he wasn't touching her. The pass may have been odious, Wright said, but Clinton wasn't accused of forcing himself...
...G.O.P. contributor, who spent about $80,000 over 18 months to get tales about Clinton's personal life into print. Former Spectator writer David Brock, who says he accepted $5,000 from Smith for an earlier abortive book project, claims that while he was working on the article he sought to ensure that Smith would not pay the troopers because it would taint their credibility. Smith now admits that three months after the story ran, he paid each of them $6,700, which he says was for income they lost when they came forward...
...make the case for the great names on the list, TIME sought out a hall-of-fame collection of writers and thinkers. The logic was simple: Who better to profile Winston Churchill than British writer John Keegan, perhaps the greatest living military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi...
...laud Dean Lewis for vetoing the bill the Undergraduate Council passed. The bill sought to leave women's diplomas in basically the same format as prior to 1977, when Harvard became officially co-educational. It failed to recognize the fact that Radcliffe is no longer a college in any real sense. While the bill was based in valuable affection for Radcliffe's history and integral continued support of women's issues at Harvard, it ignored the fact that women are only channeled through Radcliffe because they are female. The bill supported the idea of "separate but equal"--something...
...intention to acquire another U.S. company. The Germans perused the profit and loss statements of Simon & Schuster, owned by Viacom, and of HarperCollins, controlled by News Corp., but couldn't make a deal. For Bertelsmann, the world's third largest media company, the merger immediately establishes a long-sought commanding presence in the U.S., the world's largest media market. "Random House is a dream for Bertelsmann," says Thomas Middelhoff, 44, who engineered the deal just six months before officially stepping into the CEO's job. "I was as surprised as everyone else," says Sonny Mehta, president of Knopf...