Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations General Assembly, chided Western businessmen for offering the developing peoples only material ends. Said Malik: "Roads, dams, efficiency and the smile of rulers-that is all that matters; but spirit, freedom, joy, happiness, truth, man-that never enters the mind. A world of perfect technicians is the aim, not a world of human beings, let alone of beings divine." Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Archbishop of Genoa and an ecclesiastical manager who has often written on the deeper problems of management, added that "men who work today do not only ask for efficiency but for an efficiency that renders some...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
...fighters), which has been dependent on Russia for aircraft, jet fuel and spare parts. The split with Moscow doubtless upset many high-ranking officers, and last May the party launched one of the biggest of its periodic cleansings of the armed forces. Nineteen new army regulations were announced. Their aim was to "place the army under absolute party leadership and to guarantee that the army will advance victoriously in line with the directives of Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore, took careful aim, and laid down a barrage of bazooka shells. When militiamen returned fire, the raiders made an orderly retreat, covered by machine guns. But they left their mark: gaping holes in the plant's sulphuric-acid and petroleum tanks...
...bureaucrats and technicians who run the Common Market from the new headquarters on Brussels' aptly named (except for the British) Avenue of Joyous Entry. There are 2,450 Eurocrats-one-fourth of them translators who cope with the Brussels Babel of French, Dutch, Italian and German-and their aim is an overall European plan that will eventually govern production, wages and investment capital. In every idiom, they constantly repeat: "We are past the point of no return...