Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important to realize that Millis not set out to write a technical book: he is addressing the layman and the policy-maker, not the scholar, his aim is to bring about a qualitative change in the rhetoric of international relations, to this end he is more concerned with concepts than with figures, with ways of thinking than with graphs. This is no excuse, however, for blithely disregarding the obstacles for blithely disregarding the obstacles that have brought recent disarmament conferences to a standstill, nor does it justify ignoring the economic interests in the United States which thrive on the arms...
...league-leading Chicago Black Hawks were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs, and all eyes were on Chicago's great Bobby Hull as he picked up the loose puck and rocketed down the rink. Hull had already scored one goal (his 38th in 48 games), and he was taking aim again when-oof!-Bob Baum hit him with a crunching body check. Hull crumpled to the ice with pulled ligaments in his knee. In that instant, the whole National Hockey League season turned topsy-turvy...
...departmental reform had been practical, Hoffmann would still have launched the new program. For he sought more than the broadening of disciplines. As the first pamphlet on Social Studies made clear, "the program does not aim at establishing fields of concentration broader than those provided by the departments but tries on the contrary to make possible intensive work in important and separate areas." Hoffmann was not interested simply in training economists who had read Freud or sociologists fascinated by Hobbes. Rather he wished students to approach concrete social problems as entities in themselves, and to be willing and Hoffmann believed...
...again to 10 r.p.m., and the day's tests begin. Playing catch with a tennis ball has become a difficult task requiring great skill and adaptation to the rotation speed. Routine jobs on a spaceship would be no easier. Since the room is moving counterclockwise, the pitcher must aim the ball to the left of the catcher. The dart board presents the same problem. Early in the run, the men readily learned to counteract the spin at low speeds. Now they are being tested again at the higher r.p.m. and are finding the game a good deal tougher...
...aim of the project has been to create and strengthen economic planning commissions which work for the Pakistani government. Its success is evident in Pakistan's agricultural growth, which has far exceeded that of India, where conditions are very similar, Vernon said...