Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethics ceased to be a central aim of education around 100 years ago," said Bok, adding that revolutionary changes in 19th century thought had made the subject too difficult to teach...
MacDougall was quickly singled out by conservative critics as living proof of the press's alleged liberal slant. "It shows once more how easy it is to % hoodwink our media elite," wrote Reed Irvine, chairman of the right-wing pressure group Accuracy in Media (AIM). The conservative weekly Human Events said MacDougall's revelations will no doubt "raise concerns about the ability of Marxist agents to penetrate the mainstream media." The Wall Street Journal issued a statement expressing its outrage. "It is troubling," said the Journal, "that any man who brags of having sought to push a personal, political agenda...
...approximately 10 undergraduates since October have traveled to the South Boston Boys' and Girls' Club twice a week, teaching women 20 to 40-years-old academic skills. They work within a broader program that offers family planning classes, speakers on health issues, field trips and other activities. The projects aim to provide the women, who are frequently single mothers, a practical break from an often monotonous routine...
...Memphis motel balcony, blacks standing over a fallen black man, their faces abruptly up, and their fingers stabbing the air, indicting the air, along the line the shot had taken, as if the trajectory of their fingers' aim could bore back through the air to the assassin...
...eased temporarily last week when a federal judge lifted the travel ban and hundreds of aliens boarded buses for Miami, Houston and Los Angeles. But hundreds more had no money to go anywhere. And the INS is trying in court to reimpose the travel ban. Ironically, its aim is to lessen pressure on other communities such as Miami, where Nicaraguan aliens are camped in a baseball stadium and Mayor Xavier Suarez is pleading for an emergency meeting with the President...