Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have watched their savings being ravaged by a 100% annual inflation rate, have been rushing to exchange their own currency, the Inti, for U.S. dollars that can be invested abroad. Under Garcia's new edict, the nationalized financial institutions will monitor and control all dollar sales, with the aim of keeping what remains of Peru's capital at home...
...turns angry, bewildered and curious, an anxious crowd descended on the Jefferson Square Theater in Columbia, S.C., last week. Their aim: to play a role in the next installment of a long-running American serial of sex, cash and power -- a show resembling some lurid made-for-TV mini-series that might be called God and Money. For six hours, harassed officials of the embattled PTL (for Praise the Lord or People That Love) ministry were confronted at a public bankruptcy hearing by members of the flock that had supported the $203 million religious empire created by its ousted leaders...
...article Rinpoche would have enjoyed and appreciated. On the other hand, the coverage was painful because so many of us who are his followers apparently came off as self-absorbed and condescending. We know that we are not free of such attitudes, but they certainly are not our aim...
These students who aim for complete assimilation, often at odds with their upbringing, go completely overboard in their effort to become the typical Harvard student. Some even go so far as to join the final clubs which implicitly look down upon them and use them for the sake of their image. However much this course may be the easier one, it brings with it the disgust of one's fellow minorities...
...already begun looking into freezing and storing fetal brain tissue for use in implants. He reported last week that he had successfully transplanted frozen-and-revived fetal neural tissue in both rats and monkeys. The next step: implanting the thawed tissue into monkeys afflicted with Parkinson's. The ultimate aim is to create neural-tissue banks that surgeons will be able to draw on for future operations...