Word: aimed
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...Patrick Martin. In black combat gear and bullet proof vests, touting an array of dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets, albeit temporarily. Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable...
...deserve the same “government” label. Some of the sciences and the various “literatures and languages” require a significant amount of technical specialization before the real methods can be applied. But the focus on methodology has at least the aim of ensuring that by the time they graduate, students are capable of conducting legitimate independent research...
...achieve this aim, they proposed projects such as assistance to new homeowners, a “Neighborhood Bill of Rights” and a Harvard-funded skating rink on the Cambridge Common...
...experience remained with him through 1999, when he joined the Jubilee 2000 movement. Citing the Book of Leviticus ("Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year...and ye shall return every man unto his possessions"), Jubilee 2000's aim was to get the U.S. and other wealthy nations, as well as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to erase the public debt of 52 of the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa. By wiping $350 billion from their books, these countries would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down...
...experience remained with him through 1999, when he joined the Jubilee 2000 movement. Citing the Book of Leviticus ("Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year ... and ye shall return every man unto his possessions"), Jubilee 2000's aim was to get the U.S. and other wealthy nations, as well as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, to erase the public debt of 52 of the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa. By wiping $350 billion from their books, these countries would be free to spend money on health care and education, rather than pay down...