Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Phoenix, wrote that he was heartened by the photographs because they "put forward an idea of what it means to love the world." That they do. But the love they display is of the generous, uncritical kind that can ally itself all too easily with the aim and spirit of advertising. The not-quite-seduced viewer may be vexed by some of the work's resemblance to the color photography one sees most: the beguilingly resourceful and corrupt work appearing in magazines at the service of travel agencies, cosmetic manufacturers, and distillers of whiskey. One picture at the museum...
LATIN AMERICA. On Valentine's Day, Carter will hold talks in Mexico City with President José López Portillo. His aim: to begin work on an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Mexico's oil and natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...
...Their aim is not necessarily to make a profit, but rather to preserve capital from the ravages of inflation and the specter of creeping socialism in their own countries. All see the U.S. as a bulwark of political stability in a changing world...
...intend to lower Taiwan's standard of living after reunification. Said one: "We don't believe a word Teng says. He's a shrewd man, but what he is saying is just baloney." Added another: "Don't believe what Peking says. We know its ultimate aim is to destroy...
...heat. When a group of U.S. Jewish leaders asked to see Carter, they were steered instead to Vance, which the spokesmen interpreted as a calculated insult. The State Department prepared a summary of the Administration's view of the achievements of the negotiations and the hurdles remaining; its aim, said a White House aide, was simply to "explain the facts," which include the U.S. insistence that Sadat's demands were not new, as the Israelis claim, but have been under discussion since early November...