Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assistant Director Cutler believes that the original purpose of physical training was to make freshmen "more conscious of their general health," and that this remains the chief aim of the program. "President Kennedy's fitness campaign has not reached very many," he says. "Television has made us a spectator nation. Freshman must be taught that they look and feel better if they exercise regularly." The fact is that most freshmen come to Harvard as schoolboy athletes. As former Assistant Dean of Admissions for seven years, Cutler realizes this. "Two-thirds of each class have earned varsity letters in high school...
...ever be achieved, a logical common market would be the Southeast Asia peninsula, including Burma, with its interlaced river network providing needed transportation. And, except for Japanese-Korean animosity, Japan could reduce its production costs by farming out some industries to South Korea, where people need the jobs, and aim for Taiwan as a market...
...what he called "a measure of disarmament in interest rates," British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan met for a Saturday-Sunday session at Chequers, the Buckinghamshire country residence of British Prime Ministers, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and the finance chiefs of Germany, France and Italy. Their aim: coordinated reduction of interest rates in the U.S. and Europe. They agreed, Callaghan reported last week, that "interest rates are too high and that we aim at a generally lower structure of rates." Despite its apparent desire to ease interest rates further, the U.S. Federal Reserve cannot just turn...
Paranoid Violence. The men responsible for all of this comprise a remarkably young group of radical leaders who belong to the far-left wing of the Baath Party, a mystical Arab brotherhood whose main aim is the nationalization of everything and everyone in the Middle East. Since they seized power from a more moderate group of Baathists last year, Syria's new leaders have turned the country onto a path of near-paranoid violence. Oddly enough, the three men who administer the government are all trained physicians: Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36; Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, 37; and Foreign...
...Columbia Committee on Instruction, which submitted the pass-fail proposal to the faculty last month, stated that the program's aim is "both to alleviate an excessive emphasis on grades and to encourage students to take more courses in areas outside their fields of specialization...