Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stockwell tells it, the CIA's aim in Angola was modest at first: merely to slow the progress of Agostinho Neto's pro-Moscow Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which in mid-1975 already controlled twelve of the country's 15 provinces, and see that it had some competition in the pre-independence elections. The CIA decided to shore up two other guerrilla groups, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) under Holden Roberto and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi. But before long...
rigged with half a dozen Gatling guns programmed to aim and fire simultaneously, raining eight thousand rounds a minute into an area the size of a football field, driving a bullet into every six inches of ground. As this lumbering weapons sytem circles a battlefield, the stream of lead is played back and forth like a murderous garden hose; all exposed living creatures...
...program, which is not yet formally recognized by Harvard, would assign freshmen according to fields of interest and would aim to "offer freshmen immediate upperclass advice" with regard to academics and life at Harvard in general, Kyriazis said...
...missile exploded in a banana field not far from here. The Katyushka rockets are almost impossible to aim precisely, but they are small and mobile, and it is very difficult for the Israelis to stop the attacks. In the first few days of the war, the Palestinians had been shelling sections further south, but since the Israelis are pushing the Palestinians back inside Lebanon, our kibbutz is now directly within the Palestinians' target range...
This week Chrysler shareholders will vote on the company's ambitious plan to sell new shares. The aim is to raise some of the $7.5 billion that Chrysler intends to spend over the next five years for plant modernization and new-car development. That amount is more than double past expenditures, but Chrysler needs to invest big, partly to modernize plants and meet tough federal regulations on gas mileage...