Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True to Lorenzo's aim, Continental was again flying last week. Within 54 hours of filing petitions for reorganization under bankruptcy laws in Houston, it had re-established service to 25 of the 78 cities it had served. It fired all 12,000 employees and then invited 4,000 back at barely half their former wages. Senior Continental pilots who used to average $83,000 a year could return, but at salaries of $43,000. Flight attendants who had worked their way up to $35,700 were cut back to $15,000. Senior mechanics saw their wages shrink from...
...Kennedy thought he detected in a maturing TIME "an occasional hint of fallibility." Well, yes. But TIME still knows what it knows. We are still in the business of making judgments and we still do not claim objectivity, which from the start we considered impossible and undesirable. Instead we aim for fairness and balance. Since the introduction of bylines in 1970 (writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than was sometimes the case...
...Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing grotesque customs...
Into early October, the Soviets proceeded covertly, masking their operations with lies and claims that they were sending only "defensive" weapons to Cuba. Then they threw off stealth, lunging ahead in a frantic, scarcely concealed push to get offensive missiles up and ready to fire. Their aim was devastatingly obvious: they meant to present the U.S. with the accomplished fact of a deadly missile arsenal on Cuba...
...past two weeks, however, the Administration realized that the Lebanese Army must somehow be given a stronger hand in order to bolster the Gemayel government. Last week, while sticking to the pretense that its ultimate aim was to protect the lives of U.S. military personnel on the ground, the Administration ordered the naval guns to attack Druze positions around Suq al Gharb. In so doing, the U.S. provided crucial help to the embattled Lebanese Army...