Word: aimed
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This pampering of athletes is silly at a University whose stated aim is education. If athletics is bringing in big bucks which can be used for educational purposes, then Harvard should at least be honest about...
Mehmet Ali Agca was at it again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself...
...aim is to help bring an end to the apartheid regime in South Africa," said Mendelsohn. "Freedom will come to South Africa and the question asked is how much will it cost? How much blood will it take? The answer to that is in part in our hands...
Several entrepreneurs in the U.S., along with government-run rocket . programs in Japan and China, now aim to give Ariane a run for its money. NASA, which previously tried to protect its turf by discouraging U.S. satellite- launching entrepreneurs, earlier this month came out in favor of private rocket services to take up the slack left by the shuttle's interrupted schedule. Reason: Congress is worried that U.S. companies will become dependent on foreign satellite-launching services...
...explicitly underlies the feminist anti-pornography laws passed in Minneapolis and Indianapolis, which allow a woman to file a claim of discrimination against material that depicted women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or display." The aim was to eliminate the objectification of women--the portrayal of the female sex as a tool for attaining sexual satisfaction. Viewing women this way, the logic goes, encouraged the act of rape...