Word: aimed
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Originally, the plan was simply to renovate Burr Hall, but because of a number of generous donors, most notably Arthur M. Sackler, the museum staff decided in 1977 that they would aim for a new building, Slive said...
That theory received indirect support on the day of the EgyptAir interception. A P.L.F. statement delivered in Cyprus accepted responsibility for the hijacking, apologized, and admitted that Ashdod was the original terrorist target. Said the statement: "The aim of the operation was not to hijack the ship or its passengers or any civilian of any nationality...
Secretary Weinberger's speech to the National Press Club had been expected to lay out the Administration's defense strategy for the future. In essence, Weinberger stated that the Pentagon's aim is unchanged: to keep up with the Kremlin. The era of U.S. military superiority has "vanished," he said. "We are now struggling simply to win from Congress the resources to assure that we can deter the Soviet Union from aggression...
Meanwhile, back in Des Moines, McClintic is looking toward expansion. He has 1,200 machines out now. In a year he wants 5,000 scattered over 48 states. He is not the first to offer fish bait from a machine, but he is the first to aim for the national piscatorial throat. "The machine's got so much charisma," he says. "I tell you the charisma is unbelievable. When you make three presentations and for every three you get a solid sale, you got to have a dynamic product...
...twice-a-week column by its Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter Sydney Schanberg, who wrote passionately against real estate speculators and presumably displeased the publisher. Schanberg subsequently resigned. The editorials in most papers these days discuss the issues with the evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps to persuade but not to dictate. The only outrageously opinionated fellow left is the cartoonist, no longer confined to illustrating the boss's prejudices and free to tweak Reagan or ridicule Tip O'Neill. In the past presidential election several newspapers declined to endorse a candidate...