Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality, some of the report's other lists--namely, dropout rate and faculty quality--point out the areas where Harvard needs to improve. Each school has its own strengths, its own limits and its own areas to improve. A school billed as the world's most prestigious university should aim to live up to that reputation...
...neither should we think that Tyler's vision is limited simply because her novels' settings often are. Her aim is not to depict perfectly the manners of middle class marriage. Instead, Tyler is trying to make sense of love--how the hope of love can transform a life and the lack of it can ruin one. And she treats the topic seriously, realizing that we concern ourselves too much with it, that we cannot live without it and that for some it can be the focus of a lifetime. Maggie Moran in Breathing Lessons is one of those people...
...Teaching. By. Gosh.' It is psychologically necessary for them to say that. I said it. But it's never realistic. What I hope I became at Yale was a facilitator of those who are very, very good at what they do. That's also been my aim at the National League. It's what I'll try to do as commissioner...
...only end here is to work for the improvement of the South African Education system," Mpati said. "We also want to rely on South African students in the U.S. to point out what schools need help. We...have a non-political aim...
...before his acceptance speech in Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody want Rodney Dangerfield for President...