Word: aimed
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Bush's aides say they're confident Putin will eventually do a deal. Their aim now is to hurry him up. The rapid timetable is governed by political arithmetic: to lock in missile defense before Bush's first term ends. In fact, the President can just bulldoze ahead. Russia can cooperate and get something or sulk and get nothing. European objections don't count if Russia concedes. The Democrat-led Senate can't stop Bush from breaking the ABM treaty, though it can tighten the purse strings...
...executive at Hong Kong-based satellite operator Asiasat. For one thing, the satellite programs now being received in homes are relatively uncensored and subscriptions for illegal cable service are dirt cheap?the government's monopoly is bound to be pricier. Still, bureaucrats have a plan for that too: they aim to buy up all the cable operations run by a hodgepodge of local authorities and bring them under a single national owner...
...worth it." Q&A Q: A comedy about AIDS? What's so funny about a virus for which there is no cure? A: Nothing! Just as there was nothing funny about apartheid. The word comedy is misleading. I don't make jokes about AIDS. I aim to make people laugh at their prejudices and confront their fears. Humor is a great weapon, an extraordinary leveler. You can counter all the misinformation with humor. Q: I assume you're referring to President Thabo Mbeki's controversial stance on AIDS? A: You know, 99% of the world knows that HIV leads...
DIED. ELY CALLAWAY, 82, golf-equipment innovator and founder of Callaway Golf Co.; of pancreatic cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Callaway's aim was simply to make golfers happy; to that end he designed more "forgiving" clubs, like the popular, oversize Big Bertha driver, which he introduced in 1991. In 1999 he launched the controversial ERC driver, banned by the U.S. Golf Association for exceeding the limit on the so-called springlike effect (how far the club head rebounds after striking the ball) but soundly endorsed for recreation by golf's favorite son, Arnold Palmer...
...would think that given $5 million by the regional government to put on an exhibition to showcase Antwerp design, Van Beirendonck, a lecturer at the Fashion Institute, would have as his primary aim the promotion of the school's talented graduates - to get them some of the top posts at major fashion houses and attract shoppers to their labels. In fact, he's going about it the other way round. He says his goal is not to promote designers, but to bring the over-commercialized world of fashion around to his way of thinking. "I want to underline...