Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shouts and powder flew in every direction, in every face. My dead-eye Minnesota aim, cultivated through many years of schoolyard skirmishes, clobbered numerous California-bred friends. The practiced Yankee Yardlings had met up with the sun-belt greenhorns in a frenzied free-for-all that only Mother Nature could have provoked...
...Marcos declared martial law, citing the economic crisis of the day and the threat, then barely credible, of the Communist insurgency. His real motive was to remain in power beyond the constitutional limit of two four-year terms. For the next eight years Marcos ruled by decree, with the aim of building a New Society based on "constitutional authoritarianism." He claimed to be a dictator with a social conscience: he pushed forward with land reform (often at the expense of his landed political opponents) and carefully controlled trade unionism. More important, Marcos extended the sway of his New Society...
...same time, Muhammad was trying to build diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union, a long-term aim of the Kremlin's foreign policy. Western diplomats tended to believe that Moscow had felt comfortable with him and was dismayed at the speed with which South Yemen dissolved into tribal warfare...
...avowed aim of the class, whose students come mostly from the K-School's mid-career program, is to "increase one's awareness of what it means to be a leader and to develop one's capacity to manage the roles of leadership and authority," according to Lecturer in Public Policy Ronald Heifetz. The central question, he says, is how leadership is created. Heifetz believes that leadership--like athletics and music--demands an innate talent, which must in turn be developed through instruction. Heifetz maintains that his method and material are both innovative and important for civic health...
...show, sponsored by the Valiant Air Command, one of several nonprofit organizations in the country whose aim is to restore and maintain historic aircraft, had hoped to re-create the Doolittle raid by getting 16 B-25s off the ground at Titusville. "Folks, we really tried," apologized an announcer, Ted Anderson. "At the moment, there aren't 16 flyable B-25s in America." In the end, they got seven...