Word: aimed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marshall Scholarships are awarded by the British government as a token of thanks for the U.S. Marshall Plan, which provided aid to Britain after World War II. The scholarships aim to foster understanding and amity between the two nations by supporting two years of study at British universities for American students...
Both books aim to provide the context for that moment. From Kahn we learn how little even famous sidemen might make from a leader's gig: for the second of the two Kind of Blue sessions, at which Flamenco Sketches and All Blues were recorded, Coltrane, Adderley and Evans received $64.67 each. From Nisenson we learn what Nisenson has written in other books (he quotes himself so frequently that he begins to sound like a tape loop), and that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested...
...momentum going and continue to explore new areas. Says Badu: "I don't want to have no flags on me or have any symbols represent me. I represent me." It's a winning attitude. All too often, musicians misfire after promising starts. With Mama's Gun, Badu shows her aim is true...
Both Gold and Card have this aim in mind, but there the similarities end. Gold is deeply tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page...
...building and center will bear the name of donor Charles T. "Ted" Bauer '42, chair of Houston-based AIM Management...