Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saga of Gemini 5 was widely reported for the ear on radio and the eye on television, and in the daily headlines. The aim of TIME'S mission is to go to a substantially greater depth than the sounds and sights and to present a coherent, meaningful story of the flight−its drama, its trials and its significance−in terms that reach not only the ear and eye but also the mind...
...Labor government's aim is not only to wipe out Britain's trade deficit next year, but also to shock ordinary citizens, businessmen and labor into grasping the gravity of Britain's economic plight−and then reforming the featherbedding, from chairman to charwoman, that has helped to cause it. Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently warned that "complacent and prosperous manufacturers must get off their backsides," insisted that Britain can no longer tolerate "workers who inflict harm on production with go-slows or sporadic strikes in defiance of their own union." A government report has just accused...
...more than 40 major bills that Lyndon Johnson has signed recently, "the most historical of all," he assured visitors last week, is one that will cost only some $37 million annually for the next five years. Since the aim of the measure is to develop economical, large-scale desalinization plants so that cities may drink from the sea, it may at least ensure that Johnson's Great Society will not be dry. As it happened, the President had the bill ready to sign during a White House "water emergency conference" to survey the immediate and long-term problems...
...Last week, in belated recognition of the problems facing America's cities, the Congress approved a fourth, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the Senate, which passed a bill establishing HUD by a vote of 57 to 33, opposition was predominantly Republican. The bill's aim, to coordinate 115-odd federal housing and urban development programs within a single department, seemed worthy enough. But for many critics it portended yet another Parkinsonian encroachment on community affairs. Objected Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen: "I never yet saw, when you set up a department that it didn...
...South Viet Nam. With ten American advisers and 5,000 Vietnamese workers, USOM had spent $14 million, sprayed more than 10 million pounds of DDT, and slashed both the incidence of malaria and resulting deaths among the Vietnamese. But last year the Viet Cong terrorists began to take aim at the malaria fighters; since then, at least twelve have been killed and 58 are missing. Upland malaria is the more dangerous variety. On the coastal plains, three out of four cases are of the "benign tertian" variety caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax, and only one case out of four...