Word: aiming
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Despite that setback, Mitchell still travels to Scandinavia as often as he can to do field research, the aim of which is to analyze folklore theory and the history of that genre in Northern Europe, he says. "My life is split in two halves, but there is a synergism between them," says Mitchell, who just received tenure from Harvard after eight years of teaching here...
...total cholesterol (essentially LDL plus HDL) above which individuals are considered to be potentially at risk of developing heart disease; those between 200 and 239 are borderline high risk; anyone with a count of 240 or more may be at high risk. The program suggested that everybody should aim for an LDL count of 130 or lower. However, it did not recommend specific HDL targets...
Make no mistake about HUCTW. We aim to win at the negotiating table because we literally cannot afford to lose. And we will win as long as we share in a common purpose and common determination to achieve our goals...
...into overcrowded and starving towns, abandoning their blooming crops. They are driven to places like Juba by the two armies. The government denies the civilians food to keep it out of the hands of S.P.L.A. fighters. The S.P.L.A. rapes civilian women, steals civilians' food and mines their fields. Its aim is to cause chaos in the towns by flooding them with desperate refugees. "The government in Khartoum has turned its back on the south. The S.P.L.A. forces everyone to flee," says Major General Peter Cirillo, former governor of Equatoria province. "Both sides use food as a weapon...
...aim of this movie is not purely, or even primarily, documentary. The truth of its testimony is not so much literal as gospel, using that term in its revivalist sense. Mississippi Burning is a cry of anguish turned into a hymn of desperate hope, a glory shout in which remembered indignities mingle with moral inspiration...