Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Options. Even so, there is every possibility that North Viet Nam's rulers will remain adamant in their refusal to negotiate. In that situation, the President will have to reconsider his options. Since withdrawal is out, they come down to two: aim for a stalemate or order a quantum intensification of the war effort-possibly in the air, certainly on the ground...
...Kremlin holds up the goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles to buy them...
...prosecutor's questions made clear, Subandrio was not the only one on trial. The government's real aim in hauling him before the court, in fact, was to implicate Sukarno in the plot. So far, Subandrio had managed to avoid this, but only barely. "It's only a matter of time," said a top government officer. "If Subandrio gets up and says he was just following orders of the President-well, that...
...Hill family, whose home had been invaded by escaped convicts. Citing inaccuracies, Hill won a $30,000 New York award under a privacy law that may sometimes make even honestly erring news reports actionable if the subject did not consent to the story and the publisher's "sole" aim was to boost circulation. Al though the case was argued last term, with Lawyer Richard Nixon appearing for Hill, the Supreme Court took the unusual step of ordering reargument next week before issuing a decision...
When it comes to high schools, says Eble, a major aim should be to help students "see the world feelingly," since at no other age are they so concerned with their emotions. But the schools manage even to take "the fantasy and romance from sex and make it part of a humdrum world of facts" in sex-education courses. More important, an adolescent's feelings often focus on his teacher and depend more on what the teacher "is and does than on what he knows." High schools thus "should worry less about the scarcity of well-trained graduates...