Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hershbach's aim is not to chalk up another point for science, but rather to debunk the myth that science and the social concerns of the humanities are "two cultures" radically opposed to each other...
Hershbach's aim is not to chalk up another point for science, but rather to debunk the myth that science and the social concerns of the humanities are "two cultures" radically opposed to each other...
...gift came from Tina Koyama of Seattle, who had crafted the birds as part of the Million Cranes project sponsored by Ploughshares, a local peace group. The project's aim, Koyama explained in an accompanying letter, was to send 1,000 paper cranes to each of 1,000 influential leaders around the world as a gesture for peace on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Koyama chose TIME's publisher, she wrote, because TIME is "a widely read magazine that informs many people every week." She added, "Please use your influence to make people realize there...
Ricky J. Kelly '85, who plans to attend the Berkeley School of Public Health in the fall, said next year's ride will be organized out of Berkeley, Rutgers and Harvard, and organizers will aim for $1 million dollars worth of pledges from the three campuses and surrounding communities...
...central argument of immigration reformers, the possibility of a backlash against newcomers, has precedent in U.S. history. Much of the country's immigration legislation of the late 1800s and early 1900s, for example, was specifically written with the aim of barring Chinese and other Asians. But the Urban Institute's Muller believes there is now more tolerance and less racial animosity than at any other time in U.S. history. Says he: "There is no public attitude remotely like the virulent attitude of the 1840s and 1920s. I don't detect any strong backlash out there...