Word: aimed
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McKinsey and Benson have scheduled preliminary meetings for next week with faculty and students with the aim of improving both the honors and basic English programs...
...experiences also reflect the depth of a belief which prompted them to dedicate two years of their lives to sharing their convictions with other people. Finlayson explains that he wanted to give something to other people and thought that being a missionary was the best way to accomplish that aim...
...perhaps the most enduring ritual in revolutionary Iran: the late-night summons, the slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures of the Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor...
...Begin and the man he knows wants to replace him have worked closely to develop the strategy that was behind the Lebanon invasion. Its aim, in the words of a senior military officer, is "to eliminate any potential threat to Israel's existence." As Sharon sees it, "Israel needs freedom of operation in the region, and will achieve it either by political means or by its own independent military power." And Sharon has made it clear that Israel intends to reply to any threat in its own way; i.e., a P.L.O. raid in the Bekaa Valley might touch...
...will not emphasize any one argument or take a partisan point of view." Samuel P. Huntington Dillon Professor of International Affairs and one of the authors, said in July. "Our aim is to provide an intelligent framework for this very important debate...