Word: aimed
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...biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold up or even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license for Shell's $20 billion project, and took a tough line with Exxon over likely cost overruns on its $13 billion efforts. Russian officials also took aim at a third big oil exploration site in the Arctic by France's Total, saying it wasn't performing as promised. Widely interpreted as the latest attempt by the Kremlin to gain control of its massive hydrocarbon resources, the triple whammy sent shivers through the Western oil industry. Russian officials...
...program’s aim is to “bring in big names to meet with students in intimate group settings,” said HCC Director G. Tyler O’Brien ’07 last night...
...Pentagon official says that among the known sites there are 1,500 different "aim points," which means the campaign could well require the involvement of almost every type of aircraft in the U.S. arsenal: Stealth bombers and fighters, B-1s and B-2s, as well as F-15s and F-16s operating from land and F-18s from aircraft carriers...
...take Expos 20 and then determine which of your preferences you’ll be assigned to. Escape is impossible and transferring sections is difficult, so your initial choice is important and you have precious little information on which to base it. Enjoy! Expos is a methods class; its aim is not to impart a corpus of knowledge to you. Different sections nevertheless vary in amounts of reading and requirements. Some classes emphasize image interpretation; predictably, those will entail less reading and consequently less work. Others are half-methods, half-material courses that require you to spend plenty of time...
...Reasoning” into the title to make the requirement sound less daunting, and it does momentarily fool some of the more unreasonable. But no matter how big a word “Quantitative” is, math can’t hide behind it.All QR classes aim to “introduce students to mathematical and quantitative modes of thought,” and not one of them meets after 11 a.m. This is the core meant to whip the lazy literati into shape. When it comes to selecting a QR, humanities students fall...