Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moments of startling insipidity ("Do it my way/ Take the sly way/ Don't sit dreaming/ Don't by scheming") and a few jarring mistakes ("My lordship"). And the occasional intervals of equally forced dialogue sit strangely among the arias. But once you adjust to the production's apparent aim--to showcase actual, civilized musical finesse in this outpost of barbarity--it's impossible not to appreciate the success of the endeavor. The grown-up world does have its charms...
Kimbrough added that the plan fails to "spell out" the committee's goals for hiring, and "lacks a time line" for reaching its stated aim of 25 percent minority teachers and administrators...
While Harvard can only accept "the cream of the crop" from the neighborhoods visited by student recruiters. Sanchez believes the recruiters should also have an impact on the entire community. In addition to supplying Harvard with applicants, recruiters must be the "role models to get the kids to aim for better jobs or even just to continue with school...
...original aim of the study begun in 1974 was to analyze the long-term health effects of oral contraceptives, smoking, and hair dyes on women. In 1979 the scientists expanded research to include studies of how day-to-day diet affects the likelihood of chronic disease, particularly cancer...
...claim of a "very active complicity in the [Beirut] massacres" by the Israelis is directly countered by inquiry evidence which holds the Christian Phalangists solely responsible, and finds that no conspiracy or plot existed beween Israelis and Phalangists "with the aim of perpetrating atrocities in the camps." Where is Mr. Bisharat's condemnation of the Lebanese government's paralysis in conducting its own investigation in light of such damning evidence? Further, there was a reason to enter Sabra and Shatila. Contrary to Arafat's written guarantee, the PLO left about 2000 terrorists and large stocks of weapons in these West...