Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate had been hamstrung for nine days by a filibuster that Minority Leader Everett Dirksen called "the second battle of 14(b)." As in the first, which was waged during the waning days of last year's congressional session, Dirksen's aim was to block Administration attempts to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to outlaw union membership as a condition of employment. The talkathon began when Majority Leader Mike Mansfield moved that the Senate take up the repeal bill; Dirksen got the floor -and held on for dear life...
...system has not only succeeded in making divorce unpleasant, complicated and expensive; it has been woefully ineffective in its original aim of holding down divorce and protecting society from the problems that breakups produce. Roughly 400,000 U.S. couples are being divorced each year. About 40% of them are childless; the rest have some 500,000 children, two-thirds of them under the age of ten. More than 6,000,000 Americans are now divorced or separated, and divorce seems to breed divorce: probably half of all divorced Americans are the children of divorced parents. Divorce or separation occur most...
Improving the Australian economy was hardly a major aim in the life of John L. Lewis, but that is just what he did. In 1954, with their antiquated industry slumping badly, Australian coalmine owners and union leaders journeyed to the U.S. in search of a solution. Naturally, they dropped in on the longtime leader of the United Mine Workers. He urged that they mechanize their mines, as the U.S. was doing with U.M.W. support. "Do you believe in slavery?" asked Lewis. "No? Well, then, it's better to have 10,000 contented workers than 20,000 men working like...
...emphasis on national development was not intended to divorce foreign aid from the political interests of the United States. But it looked to long-term rather than short-term political effects. In this view, foreign aid, instead of being a State Department slush fund to influence tactical situations, should aim at the strategic goals of a stronger national independence, an increased concentration on domestic affairs, greater democracy and a long-run association with the west...
...single shareholder. He will probably take a seat on the board, but says he presently approves of A.M.C.'s management. Up to now, Evans has been best known as the financial backer and co-designer of a jet hydroplane that was built five years ago with the specific aim of setting the world's powerboat record. It never...