Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning, Warden Clem Coetsee, head of the capture unit, set out with his men to bag their 75th rhino of the three-month dry-weather capturing season. Armed with a heavy darting rifle loaded with nerve-blocking tranquilizer, he spotted a rhino cow, moved into range and took careful aim. The dart hit the beast's shoulder with a thwack. She snorted in alarm, thundered off and collapsed twelve minutes later...
...California Savings ($1.5 billion) and World Trade Bancorp ($100 million), all for $119 million. The group's method is to look for bargains among sinking thrifts that also possess attractive real estate holdings. Then WSGP strips the institutions of problem loans and injects them with fresh capital, with the aim of selling out at big profits...
Since the regime of President Chun Doo Hwan acquiesced to far-ranging democratic reforms in June, labor activists have organized strikes at hundreds of companies. Their aim: to win better pay and form unions that are independent of the workers' federations, which follow the management line. The government has been surprisingly supportive of the new unions' demands, even though strikes are still technically illegal. "Recent demands by laborers must in principle be accommodated," declared Chun...
...dazzling Media Lab, researchers aim to create newspapers, movies and TV that can respond to individual tastes...
...concrete wall, then rejoined his comrades. Subversives? Yes indeed, but not the kind to start an armed rebellion against the government. These, after all, were children of the Khomeini revolution, indoctrinated in the dream of conquering the world for Islam. But on this occasion they had another aim: they began to dance wildly as the pulsating rhythms of Michael Jackson's disco classic Thriller blared from the tape recorder the youth had placed beside the wall...