Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the Soviets started competing in Winter Games, in 1956, there was no commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty of pairs skating during the past three decades, the Sarajevo Games were a free...
...surrounded by hostile neighbors, and is scorned by a hypocritical world, much of which thinks it is immoral for a Jew to flight no matter what the circumstances. Israel's morality is just fine, Mr. Kurzman, and so perhaps it is time for you and your ilk to aim your high-minded sermons and your misdirected morality toward a place where it is really needed--and the rest of the world. Eric Stockel...
...Sagiv, who went into Lebanon, believes the operation was necessary. "The PLO was developing an army; they had bunkers of weapons there," he says. But Hadas Enoshi, who was an army social worker at the time of the invasion, disagrees "Some people say that if the aim of war is good, it doesn't matter what the cost is. But I say you have to take the cost into account. And life, because the Palestinians will just build up their armies there again...
...company's laid-back Californian managerial style is also going. Morgan began regular staff meetings with his senior executives. Last week he announced a total reorganization of the company with the aim of reducing corporate bureaucracy. "A lot of what Morgan has done is just fairly standard business basics," says Arthur Gemmell, vice president for administration. "We just somehow became a $2 billion company without any of them...
...fell in Grenada will never be forgotten." Nor, he said, would the Cuban revolution "tremble or vacillate" should the time come to defend itself. Harking back yet again to the Santiago triumph of 1959, Castro invoked the "heroism, patriotism and revolutionary spirit" of that day to achieve the same aim: "Victory...