Word: aime
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...poorest countries is rapidly increasing. Poorer nations blame this disparity on the U.S. and other highly developed countries, which have left them far behind in the race towards economic globalization. Thus, the new trend reflected in both the World Bank proposal and the African trade bill, both of which aim to increase exports from the world's poorest countries, must be applauded. Loans--the standard approach to foreign aid--often prove ineffective at best and detrimental at worst to underdeveloped countries, leading to a dependency on loans and an enormous debt...
...going on about how best to avoid the gender restriction, while carefully respecting the terms of the original gift," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message yesterday. "Dean Dunn and I agreed that since these discussions were inconclusive, we could not award the prize this year, but we firmly aim to resolve them so that--in some (though necessarily changed) form--it could be awarded next year...
Some students have expressed discomfort at some of the fliers and said that their aim has been to convert students to Christianity...
...aim to please," reads the brightly colored plastic drain cover in the Science Center urinals--this clever pun comes thanks to the folks at www.maincampus.com, whatever they sell. Water in the renovated dining halls now has a brand name, as the soda machines and the potato chips have had on a regular basis. And, of course, in the Harvard T stop, first cnet.com and now American Express have invaded, monopolizing the traditional advertising spaces, pasting posters to the metal beams and spelling out the product name across the turnstiles...
...find that most eggs end with a list of programmers who have found themselves otherwise uncredited. Their lack of official recognition could explain why some eggs take satirical aim at management. Some versions of AOL, for example, have been implanted with Scott's Winkie, a winking face that offers mock insider gossip, such as a forthcoming "big announcement involving Steve Case, the CIA and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia." Microsoft's Wine Guide--now discontinued, alas--contains pictures of a shirtless Bill Gates (real snaps taken at a company picnic) that slide by to the strains of Pretty Woman...