Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cyprus was going to the U.N., Britain and the U.S. activated their last-ditch plan. London, about an hour ahead of Cyprus, requested an "early meeting" of the Security Council to deal with the "dangerous situation" posed by the fratricidal fighting. The British move was strictly procedural, and its aim was to get before the forum of the world the Anglo-American conviction that first things should come first, even in Cyprus. Britain will propose to the Security Council what Ball had been proposing in Nicosia: the establishment of a 10,000-man peacekeeping force...
...little money, only 53 employees, and an ivy-covered mansion in Washington for its headquarters-where its president's office is the master bedroom. Comsat is unique in more important respects: it is a privately owned, Governmentsheltered monopoly that hopes to become a billion-dollar corporation. Its aim: to girdle the world with communications satellites capable of relaying telephone, telegraph, TV and facsimile signals between practically any two points on earth...
...ease crowding in the other Houses, and not to expand the College. Most Masters agree that a House should accommodate no more than 350 students. Above that number, a House becomes cavernous and impersonal; below it, a House may face unmanageable administrative costs. The Tenth House Committee should aim for a maximum as close to this "ideal" as financial pressures permit. If the Tenth House is designed solely to minimize crowding in the old Houses, the present student overflow would completely fill it, leaving no room for expansion...
According to Pusey, a major aim of the chair is to show undergraduates "the dynamic qualities of the private sector of the economy and factors contributing to its growth...
...French constitution. "Our constitution is good," said De Gaulle. "It has given proof of itself for more than five years," and was "neither rejected by the people nor invalidated by events." Assuredly, he declared, neither those who "sigh for the confusion of the past" nor "those who aim at a totalitarian regime" can willingly accept the constitution. "But let us keep...