Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent aim of the earlier Israeli assault on Beirut was to pressure P.L.O. leaders into laying down their arms and leaving the country that has been their haven, sometimes reluctantly, for the past 18 years. But in blasting P.L.O. and Syrian positions in West Beirut, the Israelis also struck nearby civilian buildings, including the Soviet embassy grounds, hotels, private residences and even a sanitarium. Rescue workers dug with their hands in the rubble for victims as the wail of ambulances sounded throughout West Beirut. The acrid smell of cordite filled the air. Splintered glass and chunks of concrete littered streets...
Missiles. The U.S. sold Britain about 100 AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles (for $48,000 apiece). Of 27 Sidewinders fired by Harriers during the war, 23 scored hits. These, however, were most probably British missiles; the U.S.-supplied Sidewinders were apparently used only to replenish inventories in Britain. Also supplied were highly effective laser target indicators for British ground forces and a radar system for the Royal Navy's Sea wolf surface-to-air missiles...
...cannon for one second; 100 20-mm rounds would have streaked toward the enemy jet. However, many of the downed MiGs were apparently hit by the latest model of the Sidewinder missile, which is being used effectively by British Sea Harriers in the Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h., faster than 95% of the planes in the Syrian air force. The new Sidewinders are so sensitive that they can lock in on the heat created by air friction...
...burden on society," he replies, not understanding that he and everyone connected with both movies have already achieved his life's ambition. Once again, the cheeky, satirical spirit that animated the hit Broadway show has been dispensed with. The new film, like its predecessor has as its sole aim the corruption of chil dren under the age of 14. Not that it will impair them morally. No, the aim is to generate false, commercialized nostalgia br what is made to seem a simpler, yet more colorful teen time than their own. The movie strains and strains for the effect...
...their staunchest defenders. That is why I presume to ask you on this very special day to consider the proposition that we become part of what we condone. In this regard, much of what passes for education in our time is not education at all but indoctrination, and the aim of it is to reconcile the individual with the destruction or repudiation of the moral and ethical patrimony that has sustained the West for thousands of years...