Word: aime
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...Committee wrote into Carter's package. In fact, it is one of the most bizarre, zany-and ultimately self-defeating-pieces of important legislation to reach the floor of the House in a long time. Ullman's proposal is titled "the jobs tax credit," and its professed aim is to encourage companies to hire new workers. For every new employee hired, a company would be granted an income-tax credit of $1,680, or 40% of a new employee's first $4,200 in wages. So far, not so bad. However, the Ullman committee wrote a number...
...practical control" of the waterway. Vance subsequently held a wellpublicized, two-hour meeting with then Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd. To give the talks a boost, Sol Linowitz, 53, the skilled former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was added to the American negotiating team. The aim was to make him head of the effort, but he insisted on deferring to Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 82, who views the treaty as the culmination of a career of public service...
...luck all through his life had been phenomenal, Kissinger admitted. "My career was an accident. You cannot aim for it. It cannot be duplicated by design. Most people who come to power in Washington have aggressively sought it. I thought that I would be a staff aide to the President and nothing more...
...sensitivity to the rights of the Palestinian people. This resulted in the complex tragedy that plagues the Middle East. We who believe that ending one injustice should not be done by committing another should try to find a just and human way out of this complicated dilemma. To this aim, we trust that the United States will pursue with resolution and determination the effort to accord the Palestinian people their legitimate right to self-determination and help us build a new Middle East that respects national rights and that is free from discrimination, domination and racialism. This is the challenge...
...They include negotiating a 32-hour week at 40 hours pay, making more unionists eligible for a special 13-week "extended vacation" program, putting some restrictions on overtime and banning millowners from contracting out work, such as construction, that could be performed in house by Steelworkers' members. The aim: more workers will be needed to turn out any given tonnage of steel, so fewer layoffs will be necessary, and mill bosses can guarantee employment to workers who have reached a certain seniority (20 years' service, the union has hinted). Bredhoff speculates that a lifetime-security plan could...