Word: aimed
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...terrorists still in prison could go free. One will become eligible for parole, and the second is appealing to the German President for early release. The prospect has stirred calls from some that Germany give no quarter to those who "mercilessly killed wives, men and fathers with the aim of destroying our democracy," as Volker Kauder, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union faction in the Bundestag, said recently. Others insist on a cooler approach. "Terrorism is a challenge for all of us," said Wolfgang Kraushaar, a political scientist at Hamburg's Institute for Social Research and co-author...
...drugs hype and advances in neuroscience caused psychotherapy to be neglected in medical education, says Louise Newman, director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. Lately, she says, "we've reintroduced psychotherapy principles in the first year of training"; the aim is "returning to a more holistic approach" to treating mental distress. For the afflicted who want neither to take drugs nor be grilled about intimacies by a doctor, that can only be good news...
...ranks it in the middle of Europe's averages. But with nearly half of French people aged 20-25 having developed the habit, the smokers' percentage of the population is set to rise again, and with it the number of deaths. That's why the new law doesn't aim only to restrict smokers' opportunities to light up; it also seeks to protect those subjected to second-hand smoke, which is responsible for nearly 10% of France's 66,000 annual tobacco-related deaths...
...Sarbox, as it is sometimes called, have worked to London's benefit. From Russian Big Oil (Rosneft) to a Peruvian silver mining group (Hochschild), international businesses together raised $19.6 billion on London's exchanges last year. The number of international firms on the lse's Alternative Investment Market (aim) - the lightly regulated bourse for small-cap companies - has doubled in the past two years to more than 300 (prompting accusations from the n.y.s.e. that aim lacks rigorous enough standards; the lse said the claims appeared "to indicate a misunderstanding about the operation and regulation of aim.") The lse has intentionally...
...which the three disputed paintings stem in its “Pollock Matters” exhibit opening in September. Nancy Netzer, the museum’s director and professor of art history at Boston College, said that the works still merit exhibition and further investigation. “Our aim is to present all of the information that we have,” Netzer said. “There is a lot of conflicting evidence that we want to bring to the table. It is important to engage with other scholars who may have never seen these works before...