Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central aim of the new strategy is to improve the PLO's image in the West and convert sympathy for the Palestinian rebellion into political gain...
...sight here yet. And there may never be, because, along with its punishment, S.M.U. is gulping down a strong dose of preventive medicine. The school has imposed tough standards for jocks, from SAT admission scores (about 900) to monitoring players' academic performance and mandatory disclosure of their finances. The aim is to create "student- athletes" -- talented players with the smarts to do well academically. The concept is hardly new, but it is rare in the conference, and its feasibility at a football palace like S.M.U. remains to be seen. The reformist president, A. Kenneth Pye, is enthusiastic...
Ultimately, forensic experts foresee the creation of computerized banks of DNA prints. Washington State's King County is wasting no time. Beginning in January, the county plans to take DNA samples from all convicted sex offenders. The aim: a DNA library that will pinpoint the owners of genetic fingerprints left at the scenes of future crimes...
...essentially without mass or charge, it was difficult to pin down. Lederman calculates that a single neutrino has only a fifty-fifty chance of being deflected when streaming through 100 million miles of solid steel. The young physicists used the powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed all but a single beam, which carried billions of neutrinos into a + detector. Studying...
...aim is to secure freedom for all "prisoners of conscience." In that, Amnesty International is still fighting an uphill global battle, even though its 700,000 members in 150 countries do help make the world more aware of the prisoners. In its 1988 annual report, the London-based organization last week pointed to repression of one kind or another in 135 countries, the highest number since it began tracking such offenses 27 years ago. The 278-page report concludes that in at least half of the world's countries, "people are locked away for speaking their minds...