Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed Britain's first deficit budget since 1947, but instead of glittering, across-the-board tax cuts that Britons had expected, Maudling trimmed income taxes by a moderate $700 million, targeted his cut to benefit the lowest income families-an aim that could only draw praise from the opposition. To help offset the cost, he announced his intention of taxing the vast, largely untapped fortunes ($2.3 billion in 1962) that Britons lavish on gambling each year...
...today is engaged in not one, but two nuclear arms races. Its first and overriding concern, of course, is to deter Soviet aggression and to be capable of massive retaliation if the Russians should attack the West. Washington's second aim, however, is less strategic than political; it could be called the theory of the massive placebo, since its primary purpose is not to deter the foes of the U.S. but to mollify its friends and discourage the proliferation of nuclear arms. By last week, U.S. placebo planners had succeeded only in frustrating and perplexing the very allies they...
...many problems of Leopoldville's Premier Adoula. Lacking funds and trained personnel, he has virtually no control over his sprawling nation of 17 million largely illiterate people. The Congo's administrative structure has been ripped apart by two years of civil war, and the chief aim of the national Parliament sometimes seems to be destruction of any central authority...
...book. High School Students Speak Out (Harper; $3.75), showed that in many schools pressure for good grades was subtly obscuring the goal of learning. "School is not a place to get educated in," students told him earnestly, "it's to get you into college." Said one: "Our real aim-to grow intellectually-is blocked by this terrific marks-for-college hassle.'' Fearful that "every tenth of a point is crucial," students were cramming so hard for objective exams and atomized answers that no time remained for searching study. What students yearn for, says Mallery...
...public now go to the consumer beforehand to find out what products he wants designed, or old ones changed. Even such basic industries as steel, which once sold products only to fabricators, now try to recognize the uses new alloys or materials can be put to, and aim their research at end products for the consumer. Says Edward Green, vice president of Westinghouse Air Brake: "Companies must become more oriented not only to what the customer wants today but also to what he'll want five years from...