Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Pickens took aim at Cities Service, an Oklahoma firm whose sales were nearly 20 times Mesa's. It proved badger tough, however, and nearly succeeded in swallowing Mesa by bidding for its stock before finally calling it quits and selling out to Occidental Petroleum. That hectic skirmish brought the Mesa group a $31.5 million profit and taught it some lessons. "Mesa had insufficient financial muscle throughout that fight," says Assistant Vice President Sidney Tassin. "We had a good idea but not enough money to back...
...forthcoming response from the Corporation is imperative. Our aim should be to insure full and fair representation on an untainted Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Our hope should be to prevent the Advisory Committee from becoming a sham, or worse, a "mockery of a sham...
...State Department suggested in background briefings that Levin's "escape" may have been a disguised release. The department's aim was to encourage Syria to help find and free four other Americans who are believed to be held by the same Shi'ite group, possibly in the very building where Levin was detained. Levin reported that other prisoners were in the building, but he could not hear their voices well enough to know whether they were the four Americans: William Buckley, 56, a U.S. diplomat who has been missing since March 16; the Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60, a Presbyterian minister...
...reason for ASEAN's action was soon evident. Within 24 hours, more than 30,000 Vietnamese troops supported by tanks and artillery had launched the final phase of a powerful pincer assault near the Thai border with Kampuchea. Their aim: to brush aside an estimated 10,000 lightly armed Kampuchean resistance fighters and gain control of a mountainous guerrilla fastness known as Phnom Malai. Two and a half months into this year's dry-season offensive, the Vietnamese had decided to move decisively against the most resilient resistance group of all, the remnants of the Khmer Rouge, who ran Kampuchea...
...secretary also commented, somewhat less than astutely that the aim of the new and system was to help those most in need Apparently, it did not occur to him that a $4000 cap might hurt those poor enough to need more than $10,000 in aid--not those in the upper-middle class who require only a few thousand dollars...