Word: aiming
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Evans and his colleagues have been studying water color and temperature since 1980. Their aim is to develop the first global picture of oceanic photosynthesis, the process by which algae and microscopic plant life use light to convert water and carbon dioxide into nutrients. Ultimately, they would like to learn how the oceans will influence the global warming trend, known as the greenhouse effect, and how they will be influenced...
Therapists have also had success with written "no-hitting contracts," which lay out the ground rules for couples who are having trouble. Other techniques aim at making aggressors realize that their violence is unlikely to change their partners' personalities. Brian, 27, a Boston graduate student, came to see that his own unrealistic expectations were fueling his fists-first attitude. "I even had a list of five things I wanted my girlfriend to achieve," he recalls. "I'd count on my fingers and say, 'If I marry you, you'll have to do this, this and that...
...equipment used in the production of chemical weapons are also used in the manufacture of legitimate agricultural and industrial products. The poorer nations complain that a ban on such chemicals would deprive them of agricultural fertilizers and ultimately of food. With that in mind, the Third World nations aim to insert a clause in the proposed treaty that would guarantee technical and economic assistance in exchange for their support...
...Most biographers take this fact for granted. A.N. Wilson spells it out in his descriptions of that vast, isolated kingdom of the 19th century in which the roles of writer and prophet were frequently indistinguishable. Martine de Courcel strikes a deeper Slavic chord when she says that Tolstoy's aim was to become a Fool of God. Count Leo was, of course, no fool, although many of his truths never got off the ground. His moralizing often seems as windy and endless as the steppes. Had he expounded his ideas about the utility of art earlier in his life...
...King intended to relinquish Jordan's historical / connection to the West Bank, an area that Amman formally ruled from 1950 until 1967, when Israel seized the territory during the Six-Day War. But Hussein insisted in his speech that he was not abandoning the Palestinian cause. His more likely aim: to lay down a challenge to the P.L.O., which has long demanded total control of the West Bank. Should the P.L.O. fail to administrate effectively or to progress toward peace, Hussein in no way foreclosed a future role for Jordan. "It's the put-up-or-shut-up approach," said...