Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coming, a recitation of the state's official line against using precious land for burials. "This is ridiculous," says the man, arcing a wad of spittle behind him, a small measure of civility indicating that China's famous antispitting campaign has done little more than improve the people's aim. "Zhou Enlai once said that China's greatest contribution to world peace was simply feeding its own people. To keep doing it we need the land -- all of it, every square meter. Earth burials are an incredible waste of space. Cremation is the future...
...that he can be a subtle comedian by being obvious. Maybe he is repeating Dan Quayle jokes every week to beat us so senseless that we begin to see his deep, hidden artistic motive. He may yet prove that there is humor in bad humor. If that is his aim, he is repudiating most of his last two years of "Bloom County," and he must be a very disenchanted cartoonist indeed...
Germany's immediate aim is to rid itself of the burden of being Europe's battlefield. (Hence the campaign against short-range nuclear weapons and low- flying training aircraft.) Its medium-range interest is to rid itself of foreign soldiers, which would turn it from an instrument of alliance policy into an entirely independent entity of its own. But its long-range goal is reunification or, to paraphrase Secretary of State James Baker in another context, dreams of a Greater Germany...
EDUCATION: Taking aim at the nation's schools...
...appeasement." But to the leaders of Britain and France, appeasement was a proudly proclaimed policy, meaning simply negotiating rather than fighting. "Appeasement between the wars was always a self-confident creed," Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert wrote in The Roots of Appeasement. "It was both utopian and practical. Its aim was peace for all time, or at least for as long as wise men could devise...