Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aim for the most homestyle kinds of places, usually family run with just good, simple food," says Fishbein. "We even list it if its lousy, we make sure and say 'lousy, but cheap,'" he adds...
...than a year ago. It accuses Hunt of waffling on issues and tries to goad him into taking a stand for or against the presidential candidacy of Jesse Jackson. Hunt, wisely, has not yet done so, since he would lose votes no matter what position he took. Helms' aim is to portray Hunt as a tool of out-of-state liberals, among them Fritz Mondale, former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, labor unions, gay activists and gun-control advocates...
...grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch...
...that "no U.S. citizen ever has been involved" in the mining of Nicaraguan ports. At a press conference in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, leader of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), said that his organization reserved the right to undertake similar actions in the future. The aim, said Calero, was to halt the massive flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the Sandinistas and, only incidentally, to prevent a portion of that arms aid from being passed along to El Salvador. Finally, Calero declared that "we are confident that the U.S. will continue to back the struggle...
...Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original stated aim-interdicting the flow of arms to the Salvadoran rebels-was morally valid if practically difficult...