Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this mishmash into something resembling a shape is the aim of the new Department of Transportation, created last month, 30 years after Congress was first urged to act. In pleading for the new department, President Johnson made a strong indictment of transportation in the U.S. today, deploring "programs and policies which impede private initiative and dull incentives for innovations." Despite the indictment, Congress did not see fit to give the new department the powers it needs. With 95,000 employees and a $6.2 billion-a-year-budget, DOT (as it seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth...
...launch vehicle. Royal Crown's vice president for corporate development, Glenn last week was also named chair man of the company's international subsidiary. He and Morgan J. Cramer, a former president of P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and now R. C. International's president, aim to increase foreign sales 25% next year. Other U.S. soft-drink makers are also training some of their highest-priced executive and promotional talent on the foreign market, whose growth rate will soon top that of the U.S. market. Competition is so acute that companies seldom disclose the size of their foreign...
Gross, however, has elected to aim his book at human passions, at all the unfortunate sick who have been kept waiting in the reception room, who fell athwart the doctor's inhumane side -or thought they did-who are all too ready to believe that the surgeon's main purpose in removing an appendix is to collect a $1,500 fee. That side of medicine unfortunately exists. It is the only side revealed in this book...
...relationships. It rejected the council's original instructions which were to prepare "a statement of the Christian case for abstinence from sexual intercourse before marriage and faithfulness within marriage." The morality of human sexuality, asserted the committee firmly, admits of no precise and easy answers. A principal aim of the study group, said Greet, was precisely to correct the distorted concept that the church is made up of "sexless saints sitting in judgment on passionate sins...
Processed Scholars. He insists that the aim of education ought to be "the molding of men rather than the production of knowledge." Students yearn to "become civilized men instead of scholars," but after four years they feel they are not humanely educated. So they go on to graduate school, where they are "processed as professors" whose aim is "to know rather than...