Word: aimed
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Fleming made it abundantly clear that the primary aim of the levies is not so much to earn revenue (only some $50 million next year) as to put a For Canadians Only stamp on the nation's economy. Led by Economist James Coyne of the Bank of Canada, government experts have long been upset over the way Canadians go to the U.S. for capital funds. They argue that continued heavy borrowing in the U.S. not only erodes Canada's interest in her own natural resources, but increases the already serious outflow of interest and dividend payments. Thus...
...between two old men, Harry Truman, 76, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, came to a boil again. On a TV chitchat program in Chicago, Truman was asked point-blank if he had ever been pressured to use the A-bomb during the Korean fighting. Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing...
...into full-scale crises. But the sum total verified his creed that forethought should be a foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come on target in the present. Otherwise, our problems fly by and we just knock off a few tail feathers...
Government has long been to encourage U.S. business to invest abroad. Now that aim is being re-examined and questioned, even in Government circles, because foreign investment contributes to the outflow of U.S. gold...
Perhaps after Jack Gelber's Career went successfully from television to off-Broadway, other authors subsequently decided to skip the first step. The result is a cluster of television plays attitudinizing on live stages. But until any valid equation between Trendex potential and good theater is proven, plays which aim at the Bell Telephone Hour level of art ought to be kept off or swept off the boards. A good case might be made for these shows, though, on the grounds that plays with any dramatic pretensions are preferable to those which are explicitly commercial. A monstrosity entitled Greenwich Village...