Word: aimed
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...Rolls-Royce. The company's success is a classic lesson in the value of patience and persistence, as the design of a new jet engine is a devilishly long-term process that can consume at least five years and more than $1 billion. GE took a more astute aim at the aircraft market of the future, while Pratt & Whitney failed to develop a full range of quieter and more fuel-efficient models. GE's strategy is paying off. Last year its aircraft-engine division earned profits of $940 million on revenues of $6.8 billion...
...crowd soon realized one of the drunks was pretending. In the second quarter, Harvard whipped out its gun, its aim dead accurate...
Last December, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy helped push Congress into passing a provision that seemed to take dead aim at Rupert Murdoch. At the time, Murdoch was benefiting from temporary waivers of a Federal Communications Commission regulation that prohibits a firm from owning a newspaper and a TV station in the same community. The waivers allowed him to continue owning the Herald and WFXT-TV in Boston, and the New York Post and WNYW-TV in Manhattan. But the congressional measure urged by Kennedy forbade the FCC to extend the time period of the waivers that were then in effect...
Foriegn Minister Shimon Peres said on Israel radio: "Israel will cut off the murderers' hands and will not let the evil terror achieve its aim...
Griffin is trying to wrest Resorts International, the Atlantic City-based hotel and casino operator, from Trump. The developer, Resorts' chairman since last year, has been buying shares in the company and bidding for the rest. His aim is to merge it into his privately held Trump Organization. But on March 17, Griffin began his unexpected last-minute bid for the company, initially offering $35 a share for stock that Trump intended to buy for $22 a share. Last week, despite the sluggishness in Atlantic City's casino business, Griffin raised his offer by $70 million, for a total...