Word: aimed
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...willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire...
...surprising that at last the Tennesseans went to court. Their aim was to force the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set standards requiring Champion to lighten the color of the mill's effluents. But North Carolina and Champion continued to resist in court and out. The company bused thousands of employees to public hearings on both sides of the border, at which Vice President Oliver Blackwell warned that the cleanup job would be so expensive that Champion would shut down the mill instead, costing thousands of jobs...
...while such restrictive actions aim at cutting booze consumption, the fact is that students have become more furtive rather than more abstemious. Furthermore, they may be drinking harder stuff on the sly than they did in the open. A survey of 76 New York colleges and universities in 1986 showed that the percentage of schools with serious drinking problems actually rose from 38% to 43% after the state drinking age went from...
Never before had the British Broadcasting Corporation's on-air decorum been so severely tested. Just as Newscasters Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell were about to begin The Six O'Clock News, four women rushed into the London studio. Their aim: to protest legislation prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality...
Only in one respect might Reagan be chagrined by what he and Gorbachev have been unable to achieve. The President had wanted to usher in a brave new world in which the aim of diplomacy would be to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether. In that respect he has failed. The past few years have seen a restoration of the traditional goals of arms control. The legacy that Reagan leaves will show remarkable continuity with the one that he inherited. That may be a disappointment to him, but it should be a relief to the rest of the world, since precisely what...