Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school of Broadway dramaturgy. He seems to be saying that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve a marriage, but who in real life can control their passions as well as Doris and George? Same Time, Next Year is full of such hypocrisy; Slade's only real aim is to pander to his audience's most bankrupt fantasies...
These opium poppies grow in Turkey. They are not your ordinary Papaver somniferum, but a new strain developed over eleven years by a Soviet scientist from Armenia. Infuriated by his government's decision to end the better-poppy-for-socialism program (his aim was to produce a more potent drug for medical use), Dr. Krikor Grotrian makes a deal to sell the seeds to an Armenian dealer, who smuggles them into Turkey. There, largely because they bear scarlet blooms rather than the more common white petals of opium flowers, they flourish undetected in the hinterland. What Grotrian does not realize...
...housemaids live in the servants' quarters that must by law be attached to every house in white zones; a few waiters work inside Pretoria until just before the last buses go out to the black townships. But, for the most part, nighttime Pretoria seems to have accomplished the basic aim of apartheid: complete separation of the races. At night, when workers are no longer needed, the blacks disappear, leaving the wealth of the city proper to their white employers...
...October, wholesale prices for finished goods rose at a disheartening annual rate of 11.4%, indicating, as Carter candidly acknowledged, that inflation will get worse for a while before it improves. The President's advisers aim to bring the inflation rate down at least half a percentage point a year. Given the depth to which inflation has embedded itself in the economy, that goal is probably realistic, but it implies a struggle that may last many years before price increases can be reduced to any pace that could be considered tolerable. During those years, Carter will have to demonstrate...
High up on the list of American complaints is the sluggishness with which Japan has moved to live up to the trade agreement that was concluded with the U.S. last January. That pact pledged Japan to cut tariff walls and quotas, with the aim of bringing U.S.-Japanese trade back into balance by 1980. But there have been few signs that the promises are being kept, and trade hassles with the Japanese are still regularly in the headlines (last week's concerned Japanese import quotas on American beef and oranges...