Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interference in Iran, but some observers do not rule it out. Moscow maintains a diplomatic mission in Tehran that is far bigger than that of the U.S. Intelligence officials assume that the Soviet embassy and consular offices provide cover for large numbers of KGB operatives. What is Moscow's aim? "From the Soviet standpoint," says one Western official, "the game here is pretty simple: worse is better. The Shah is their enemy, and anybody who opposes him is to be supported." Adds a former U.S. diplomat: "If you were in the Kremlin, you would say to yourself, what...
...Carter's economic-policy team has begun making final recommendations for a Stage Two anti-inflation program. Aides aim to put on the President's desk late this week specific proposals for tougher measures to follow up the ineffective ones that Carter announced last April. The likely centerpiece: a set of specific standards that labor and industry will be asked to follow when raising wages and prices-possibly backed by the threat of federal penalties against violators...
...name may soon be greeting airline travelers along the East Coast and the Gulf states. Moving toward a long cherished aim of getting some domestic U.S. routes to tie in with its foreign network, Pan American World Airways last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Airlines for about $350 million. National's name and sunburst logo would disappear, and on domestic runs the combined line would be known as Pan American U.S.A. On foreign routes Pan Am would leave its name unchanged...
...Ilie Nastase (in which Connors actually was guaranteed $500,000 and Nastase received $150,000). Far more serious are charges of players' defaulting and "tanking," or purposely losing matches. Occasionally, players who lose early in singles expend less than full effort on their doubles matches with the aim of squeezing in a few days of rest or practice on a faltering serve...
...that most imitated of film classics, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. But A Slave of Love comes from the Soviet Union, not France, and that single fact casts the film in a startling light. It isn't often that the Soviets export movies that aim to be lyrical, sentimental and commercial. One could sooner imagine Universal Pictures releasing a musical remake of Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky-with or without Sensurround...