Word: aimed
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...like, 'I don't care.'" Mikael Nickolauson, a taciturn 17-year-old, was sitting at a table doing his homework when he was shot and killed. Only the day before, he and his fiance had enlisted in the Oregon National Guard. Kinkel continued moving through the crowd, taking aim. As students were hit in their chest, arms, legs and head, their classmates scrambled under the tables or ran screaming for the exits. At one point, Kinkel raised his rifle to Ryan Crowley's face, but he had run out of bullets and the gun would not fire. Crowley, 14, jumped...
According to William M. Todd III, dean of undergraduate education, the citations aim to provide an incentive to study language without an actual increase in requirements...
Other substances in the works may be further from the market, but they are in some ways even more exciting. Several of them take aim at a growth-signaling protein made by a gene called RAS (for rat sarcoma, the cancer in which it was first discovered). In about 30% of cancers, the RAS protein is stuck in an "on" position, mindlessly ordering the cell to divide again and again. It plays a role in 90% of pancreatic cancers, 50% of colon cancers and 25% of lung cancers. Dr. Edward Scolnick discovered the RAS gene in rats while working...
...give you students a commencement speech that is both memorable and useful. It consists of a list of jobs that are readily available to young college graduates, but are rarely, if ever, considered to be within their reach. The mistake made by most of you is that you aim too low--assistants to administrative assistants and the like--whereas the positions I am about to describe are not only exalted and high paying; they also require little or no work, experience, training or knowledge. Thus they are exceptionally well suited to graduating seniors. Here, then, is a sort of "unclassifieds...
...floundering. Through NATO, the U.S. found itself committed, apparently (and astonishingly) without President Clinton's knowledge, to dispatching 20,000 troops if called on--not an attractive option on the eve of a presidential campaign. Holbrooke's mission was to come up with a more acceptable course. His aim--nothing less than "a comprehensive peace agreement, not another weak, meaningless set of general principles that would be forgotten or ignored as soon as the conference adjourned"--was certainly ambitious. He writes, "I had wanted to test myself against the most difficult negotiations in the world." He got his wish...