Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When you tell people you're a coxswain, they often laugh a lot. If you've never had to do it, hey, well, it's not a big deal to aim the boat in the right direction and yell at all those rowers. I mean, really, you could stay on the road and yell at your mother at the same time, even when you were just learning to drive, right? Well, almost...
Paradoxically, their apparent unity of aim may lead to difficulties and frustrations, if only because Luciani no longer exists as a candidate. He was a compromise, to be sure, but a happy one, whose graces and goodness had hitherto shone only in a small corner of a great church. Asks Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang of Taipei with evident skepticism: "Will it be possible to find a man with the same qualities?" Though Luciani once described himself as a "wren" among bishops, his papacy revealed him as a rather rarer bird. His reputation for doctrinal conservatism made him acceptable to the traditionalists...
...signed within three months, major Israeli withdrawals within three to nine months after that, the normalization of all relationships between the two countries within a year and complete Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory within three years. Though the two agreements were not contingent upon each other, the aim was clear: through their joint application they could create a climate and a context of progress toward peace that would bring along the more reluctant elements in the Middle East that were not represented at Camp David, upon whose ultimate cooperation any durable peace depends. That includes not only the other Arab...
...promoted voluntary school integration. The only hopeful example he gives, however, is San Diego. Using a voluntary system, the city has kept the level of white flight down (below 6% per year). But the increase in the actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together-the real aim of integration-has been small. A similar failure to achieve much actual integration occurs in many forced-busing cities, as Armor keeps pointing out, but at a much greater cost in pain, dislocation and plain cash...
Prodded by pressures at home, 103 U.S. firms, including nearly all the biggest ones, have signed a code drawn up by Sullivan last year.* Six months ago, U.S. firms started an American Chamber of Commerce with the aim of accelerating anti-apartheid efforts. "Will it work?" muses the chamber's president, Clifford Lyddon. "In the long run, I guess so, but the blacks are reluctant to take advantage of opportunities because they have grown up in an environment that says shut up and stay in your place." And while their ability to change that environment is necessarily limited...