This is no different from assessing performance in traditional academic areas, for which the district also seeks better measures.

It also seeks drastic measures against crime, and wants to increase penalties.

It also incorporates a number of other measures sought by business, labor, farm groups and oil producers.

But he supported a 1985 measure, sought by farmers, that overhauled some programs, including income support.

He said he would be seeking "confidence-building measures of some sort."

Nevertheless, she seeks preventative measures from the doctor to avoid cancer altogether.

This is the plight of desperate people seeking desperate measures to start a new life.

Following the failure of the Clinton health care plan, Kennedy went against his past strategy and sought incremental measures instead.

The turmoil is frustrating businesses and consumers, who are seeking quick measures to revive a stagnant economy.

The new proposal does not move aggressively to control polluted runoff, leaving states to manage that effort mainly by seeking voluntary measures.