Word: aiming
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Within his own party, L.B.J.'s Viet Nam policy won strong backing. The evidence is that 56% of Democrats who favor his renomination cite his position on the war as the main reason. In contrast, Senator McCarthy of Minnesota, whose explicit aim in running is to attack that policy, has so far drummed up scant support. Nor does an avalanche of write-ins appear imminent for Bobby Kennedy, another critic of the war policy, who is not on the ballot and has discouraged any campaigning on his behalf...
...original aim of the Senior Associates Program, first instituted last year, was to provide upperclassmen for Harvard freshmen to consult. Seniors involved signed up to work with a proctor of a particular unit. According to the Freshmen Dean's Office, only 22 signed up this Fall, less than half of the 48 needed...
Together, Daniels, Parmiter, Goodman and Kirshenbaum go at their tasks in the belief that what we must aim to give the reader is not the results but the reasons...
Cities in Crisis. The major aim of the President's proposals was to induce private industry to assume a larger role in solving the nation's housing problems, as proposed in a study by a presidential slum-housing commission headed by Industrialist Edgar Kaiser. To that end, he urged the creation of a National Housing Partnership of major firms that are not now in the building industry. Because of its large size, the National Partnership could reduce costs by standardizing construction plans and making massive purchases, and at the same time serve as a central clearinghouse for local...
...more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European Jews-were either ignorant of Hitler's aim or could not believe that anybody would seek to destroy a whole people. But Morse offers considerable documentation for his charge that some key U.S. officials knew for years about the Nazis' infamous "final solution...