Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government agencies should measure their success in the reduction in need for their services from the same clients. However, I didn't reckon with the bureaucratic mentality. Dr.Blaine and some administrators are "alarmed" at the decline of 6.4% in their trade. Is the really successful health service to aim at a 20% per year growth rate to keep up the GNP? Perhaps the health service psychiatrists and their administrative cohorts could use some of that increased leisure to think about the charges that the students are making against the adult society which they and the University represent. Howard M. Feinstein...
Promise of Seniority. To replace the 2,000 employees on strike, Hearst has hired 1,200 non-union personnel. Some are professional strikebreakers who travel from one struck paper to the next. But most of them come from suburban papers around Los Angeles, and they aim to stay on. They have been promised that they can keep their jobs when the strike is ended and that they will even have seniority over the strikers. "I don't like being called a strikebreaker," says a 26-year-old reporter who is making $54 more a week at the Examiner than...
...meetings decked out in baseball and football uniforms. At one meeting, anxious to rev up competition among his bank's various branches, he showed up at the wheel of a child's toy car. And to make the point that the bank's executives ought to aim at bigger and bigger targets, he once donned a shooting jacket and bounded into a conference room amid a volley of blank .30-cal. cartridges...
...aim of the United States is to avert future violent upheavals, the only meaningful course of action is to attempt to alleviate the misery in the world. Posturing in Vietnam can not be a cheaper shortcut to the same...
...reference is not facile. Paul McCartney once said: With any kind of thing, my aim seems to be to distort it, distort it from what we know it as, even with music and visual things, and to change it from what it is to see what it could do. To see the potential in it all. To take a note and wreck it and see in that note what else there is in it, that a simple act like distorting has caused. It's all trying to create magic, it's all trying to make things happen so that...