Word: aimed
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...Their description of a dysfunctional France has become a central theme in the election campaigns of all three key candidates for the French presidency. Nicolas Sarkozy on the right, centrist François Bayrou and Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party's candidate, are all taking aim at a France they describe as "blocked" and "immobile." And they are making promises galore to resolve many of the issues that have sent these young French abroad in the first place. Royal wants to hand out $13,000 interest-free loans to aspiring entrepreneurs, and says she will create...
...Fuller's aim is much more ambitious than making Idol a fund-raising juggernaut. He wants to launch a whole new TV genre, using America's most popular show as his springboard. But he and Curtis do not seem daunted, either because they believe Idol is unsinkable or because they're both pretty familiar with the whole putting-on-a-show concept. "These things can be fantastically innovative and dynamic and not just ploddy old telethons," says Fuller. He admits Fox is not so sure. "But, hats off to them, they're supporting us. How reluctantly, I don't know...
...plus member student group Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB). Though groups like HUWIB are not explicitly anti-male, the fact that they are essentially gender exclusive and the nature of their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let’s imagine for a moment that HUWIB had a male counterpart?...
...Keret's real subjects are Israel's teenage soldiers turned unsettled couch potatoes, the 20-something slacker veterans who live in the twin shadows of the Holocaust and their state's martial heritage. For all his imaginative pyrotechnics, Keret's aim is engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck...
...that both sides appear to be backing away from a standoff, a flurry of media commentary has emerged to insist the conflict took Tehran by surprise. Iran had no aim of damaging its relationship with Britain, explained an editorial in the news website Khedmat, linked to ,President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad and "reacted to a situation that presented itself." But when Britain sought to aggravate the situation by involving the United States, Tehran was forced to take sterner measures, such as airing footage of the detainees. "Iran had no desire to repeat any sort of hostage crisis, says Amir Mohebbian, an editor...