Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, however, the situation is different. For the first time since 1961, three of the council's nine members have decided not to seek re-election. As a result, the council race is wide open. In 1989, more than any other year in recent memory, your vote will make a difference...
...recent years prosecutors have used the statute to go after white-collar criminals with gangbusting zeal. That application of RICO has been attacked as unfair, especially the practice of freezing the assets of suspected criminals before trial. Last week the Justice Department issued new RICO guidelines requiring that prosecutors seek a forfeiture of assets in proportion to the crime rather than try to seize all of a defendant's business interests. The changes come in response to pending congressional legislation that would weaken RICO laws. Still, the man who helped draft the law, Notre Dame Law School professor Robert Blakey...
East German Ambassador Helmut Ziebart urged his fellow citizens to seek legal emigration in East Germany, rather than go through other countries. But many complained that it takes years for such requests to be granted...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--More than 1300 young East Germans jammed the West German Embassy yesterday to seek new lives in the West, and many scoffed at promised reforms in the communist homeland they left behind...
...while the governor may be able to protect his legacy because he will not seek reelection, others contend the scope of his agenda will be weakened...