Word: aiming
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...Actually, the multiple calamities-340 in all-were fictional, dreamed up for Torchlight III, the third in a series of dry runs of the Olympic-security coordinating system. But for the law-enforcement authorities who went through the exercise last month, the hypothetical mayhem was serious business. Its aim: to give security agencies, ranging from the FBI to the Fullerton, Calif., police department, practice in operating as a unit before the July 28 opening of the 23rd Olympic Games...
...suggested were "crazies," and the vast majority of the settlers. He is understandably defensive. Although a modest program was initiated after Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war, it was Likud's Begin who launched a major settlement plan after taking office in 1977. His aim was to create "facts on the ground" that would guarantee that Judea and Samaria, as he preferred to call the West Bank, would permanently remain in Israeli hands. Apartment complexes, looking like college dorm towns and housing 400 families or more, sprang up on once bare hillsides. Couples faced with...
EMPLOYER PENALTIES. The bill requires most employers to demand that job applicants produce documents indicating they are legal residents of the U.S. The aim is to dry up the flood of illegal immigrants across the 2,000-mile Mexican border by discouraging business people from hiring the aliens. In theory, however, the provision would apply to every type of job seeker: Wall Street investment firms would have to demand documentation for Caucasian M.B.A.s, just as Texas restaurants would for dark-skinned would-be dishwashers. The major exemption is for people who employ no more than three workers; families with...
Even with big spending cuts, however, revenue increases will be needed. The Brookings economists think Congress should aim to boost taxes by $23 billion in 1985. Much of that could come from eliminating many income tax deductions and closing loopholes. Congress could, for example, raise $3.9 billion by taxing employees on employer contributions to health plans and $600 million by reducing business entertainment deductions by 50%. The Brookings book lists 23 such-steps that could bring in $30 billion, but suggests that a politically realistic target might be $15 billion. The additional $8 billion needed to meet the $23 billion...
...fill viewers in on the latest developments.) The film has already been seen on Dutch TV, and will be shown in several other European countries. Sakharov probably should be compared, not to such other TV biographical epics as George Washington or Kennedy, but to those social-problem dramas that aim to educate viewers and perhaps rouse them to action. If Sakharov helps mobilize public pressure on the Soviet regime to end its persecution of the Sakharovs, then this TV movie can justifiably call itself a grand success...