Word: aime
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...days later, Bush met Russian President Vladimir Putin, into whose soul he had peered approvingly four months ago. Bush and Putin discussed the size of cuts the U.S. is ready to make in its nuclear arsenal in return for Russian acquiescence to America's missile-defense program. The aim: to conclude a grand nuclear bargain at the soul brothers' November summit in Crawford, Texas...
...Sept. 11 catastrophe made tragically clear, the fanatic groups behind such terrorism will no longer content themselves with conventional, low-tech forms of attack. They aim to go further and hit harder by using biological and chemical weapons and no doubt bombs packed with radioactive material, not to mention cyberterrorism. To carry out their strikes, these groups have recruited and trained two types of terrorists. The first is psychologically and intellectually weak and is used to stage such "classic" attacks as car bombings, hijackings and kidnappings. Recruits who fit a second, stronger profile are referred to as God's Brigade...
BARRIERS They range from ugly concrete highway dividers to elegant sculptures, fountains and benches, but the aim is the same: to keep cars and trucks at a distance
...commercial medical treatment, human insulin for diabetes, produced through recombinant dna technology. Since then Ullrich has been on a quest to battle cancer by concentrating on signal transduction, a means of communication between cells in the human body. From this work came the drug Herceptin, the first treatment to aim at the cells that cause breast cancer. Ullrich's approach is not to target the cancer cell itself but to block the mechanism that attracts blood vessels from healthy tissue to feed a tumor...
...carbines and grenade launchers, carrying radios and handheld global-positioning gear. Some of the teams will feature snipers; others will race across the desert in specially equipped dune buggies; yet others will practice their mountaineering skills, crawling over Afghanistan's rugged mountains. For many search-and-destroy missions, the aim will be to get in and out so fast that forces stay on the ground in Afghanistan for less than an hour...