Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raising the gasoline tax but by reducing the income tax cuts scheduled to go into effect July 1. This $17.9 billion plan will be offered as a substitute for the House Democrats' highway-gas tax program, and will be defeated, as its sponsors know perfectly well. Their aim is to tell constituents that they voted to create 650,000 jobs, a grossly inflated estimate...
Throughout his first week in office, as he assumed the powers he will hold as President of Mexico for the next six years, De la Madrid acted like a man eager to set a new tone. His aim: to impose austerity, efficiency and, above all, "moral renovation"-a euphemism for honesty-upon a nation battered by economic troubles and demoralized by the latter-day excesses of López Portillo...
After that, the Crimson hoopsters never looked back. Lisa Liethauser, in her first start of the season, worked the baseline, pivoting after receiving passes, and shooting with deadly aim. Joseph seemed to be working with a radar system, cutting up to high post, catching a pass just when the defense would move in the opposite direction. Forward Cindy Clapp put in the same steller performance that has made her the team's second leading scorer behind Scannell...
...Pakistan that is not so. We have lost half a country [formerly East Pakistan, now Bangladesh] as a result of the 1970 election. Elections to Pakistan are an anathema. Elections create crisis in Pakistan. A little while ago, politics in Pakistan meant violence, character assassination, polarization. It is my aim to inculcate positive Islamic values, and then, at the proper time, I will have no other option but to hold elections and let the people return their truly elected representatives. That time is in the not-too-distant future. It is not a decade away, but it is not weeks...
...Walt Disney never thought of the work of his studio as the creation of art," reports Publisher Robert E. Abrams in the preface to Treasures of Disney Animation Art (Abbeville; 319 pages; $85). "His sole aim was to create entertainment." But the two goals are not mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by this vast selection gleaned from millions of sketches, paintings and layouts. Abrams' book continues the elevation of Disney from the Barnum of the barnyard to an aesthetician with uncanny instincts. This is no Mickey Mouse collection; it includes paintings by, of all people, Thomas Hart Benton and Salvador...