Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aim of socialism is the elimination of the fragmentation of humanity in petty states and the individualism of nations-not only the coming closer of nations to each other, but their merger or fusion...
...scourge of dangerous cars, diseased meat, dirty fish and innumerable other public nuisances, Washington Attorney Ralph Nader has become the self-appointed lawyer for U.S. consumers. This summer Nader, 34, took aim at Washington's official bastion of consumer protection, the Federal Trade Commission, and infected other youthful Americans with his muckraking zeal. Seven bright young Ivy Leaguers flanked him, five of them with legal training, badgering startled FTC officials with pointed questions that Nader believes Congress should ask but never...
...smarting smog had inspired him to create a fumeless electric car two years ago. When he heard that students at M.I.T. were developing a similar electric model-as are several auto companies, including Ford, General Motors and American Motors-he challenged them to a transcontinental race. The aim of the operation: to stimulate interest in non-air-pollutant electrics...
...National Bank of Hialeah (assets: $10 million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided to concentrate first on making money. He took aim at a hitherto overlooked market: foreign investors eager to put funds into the U.S. but imbued with a traditional preference for real estate rather than stocks and bonds...
Japan's Hitachi Ltd., the huge electrical and heavy-equipment industrial manufacturer, is responsible for a number of already proved systems for accomplishing this aim. One of them, called a rotary parking tower, has been installed as an integral part of several Tokyo office buildings. It works on the same principle as a Ferris wheel: cars are parked on gondola-like platforms that are rotated up and around by a single attendant. When a driver calls for his car, the attendant pushes a console button and the wheel brings platform and car down to ground level. Costing about...