Word: aime
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...When an Amazon or a Charles Schwab moves into your neighborhood, you've got moments to react. Or take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscape fame. His latest venture, Healtheon/WebMD, intends to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars of waste out of the health-care system. These new firms aim to create nothing less than havoc in the theaters in which they operate...
...Haider's statements are not extremist, nor are they far-right. They are populist, immature and inappropriate. Yes, the new government does indeed aim on strengthening the military, increasing the holes in the welfare net and creating a leaner government, but that is what conservative governments--anywhere--tend to do. The concentration camp in Mauthausen is not going to be activated again, Hitler will not receive a memorial in Vienna, nor will any government agency order to burn books or censor teaching material describing the atrocities of the Holocaust. Politicians like Haider should not be allowed to govern an idyllic...
...University-wide Capital Campaign ended Dec. 31, 1999, exceeding its $2.1 billion aim by half a billion dollars, with 174,378 people contributing...
...declared a cease-fire, an "end to hostility between fashion and architecture." Although fashion is a "new monster" (in comparison, one supposes, to the venerable menace of modern architecture), Silvetti maintained that its aspirations don't stray too far from those of its design ancestors-both architecture and fashion aim to protect us, establish our identity and merge with the human form. And yet the question of whether the design traditionalist unfairly dismisses fashion design as "impure" was insufficiently answered. The Excellence in Design Award was developed in conjunction with the GSD's Design Arts Initiative, meant to expand recognition...
...school-mandated shirts, skirts and pants (to be decided by each principal). In doing so, the city became the largest school district in the nation to adopt such a policy, which educators believe helps focus kids' attentions away from their appearance and toward their studies. Such standards also aim to reduce economic distinctions and to suppress the cruelty of school cliques...