Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also contributes heavily to periodic papers called "National Intelligence Estimates," which attempt to pull together the expertise of all the U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies, including those in the military services, on specific topics. The agencies' main aim has been to assess Soviet strategic capabilities and, more significant, Russia's intentions. These reports were read critically by Kissinger, who sometimes penciled in the margin "flabby" or "bureaucratic bullshit." They are still held in low esteem at the White House...
Skirmishes Lost. Some of the hottest lobbying action is in the House Ways and Means Committee, now dealing with the many parts of the program that aim to conserve energy by raising taxes or granting tax credits and rebates. Last week the Administration lost several important skirmishes. By big majorities, the committee scrapped the Carter idea to award rebates to buyers of small, economical cars, a provision that could have favored imported vehicles over Detroit's products. Ways and Means also decided to delay for a year, until the fall of 1979, a scheme to impose heavy taxes...
...chance that this argument might not win many converts at Radcliffe, Fox offered as a sop a new South House dining hall, the moving of the Social Studies Department to Hilles Library and a reduction in Quad crowding with the aim of eliminating one-room doubles there. (More recently, President Horner announced she hoped to have a limited sports complex on Observatory Hill completed by Radcliffe's 1979 contennial...
...roar of two cannons. But the fireworks that have made ELP rich consist of an innovative, complex kind of rock that seems to carry on the adventure of the Beatles' 1967 precedent-shattering Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Right now ELP's aim is not noise but the successful blending of both rock group and orchestra. Those bands (Nice, Deep Purple, Moody Blues) that have tried similar collaborations have ended up with an overpowered orchestra, primarily because only the rockers were plugged directly into the amplification system. ELP solved the problem by equipping most instruments...
...FOMC is where Burns exercises most of the influence he has on the economy. The committee meets in Washington on the third Tuesday of each month. All the twelve Federal Reserve bank presidents are there, even if they are not members of the committee at the moment. Their aim is to agree upon a policy directive to be passed on to the manager of the Federal Reserve system's open-market account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York...