Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reach both types of students, the teacher must aim somewhere between their interests, a necessary approach but one which satisfies neither group. Chemistry students argue that there is too little theory. Non-concentrators, the more vocal group, complain that the labs are too long, the courses too hard and not aimed at teaching the material which will be useful in later work...
Fairbank has been a critic of the government's China policy. In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last March, he favored the admission of Communist China to the U.N., and argued that United States policy should aim at "getting the Peking leadership into the international order...
...motor, skids and twitches about on a mirrored platform. "The machines process information," says Seawright, 30, an Ole Miss grad who instructs at Manhattan's Electronic Music Center (run by Princeton and Columbia). "Their cells and sensors collect information on light and sound, and they behave accordingly. My aim is to produce a kind of patterned personality. Just as a person you know very well can surprise you, so can these machines...
Wooden Birds. Just as in Holland, where Hals and Rembrandt painted citizen companies of harquebusiers, Polish burghers formed shooting fraternities. Their aim was to defend their city walls; more often they were social militias. Their targets were wooden birds atop staffs, a custom recalled in the Cracow fraternity's emblem, which was the gift of Sigismund Augustus in 1565, with its silver cock resplendent in royal crown and symbolically attached by a chain to its perch. Poland has been partitioned out of existence only to re-emerge as a nation, changed again under present-day Communism, but its ancient...
With the economy at a real crisis point, Wilson's government last summer imposed a "freeze" on wage and price increases. The main aim was to make Britain more competitive overseas by reducing consumption and costs, while raising exports and investment for industrial modernization. At the start, the government said that beginning Jan. 1, the freeze would thaw into a mere matter of "severe restraint." Most Britons took the freeze with stiff upper lip, but they also looked forward to New Year's Day, by which time business as usual-or almost as usual-could be resumed...