Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal aim of the University's house sale is to make a tenure offer more enticing to a prospective faculty member. This is all part of Harvard's overall attempt to make attractive fringe benefits available to counteract the increasing number of tenure rejections it receives. However, small wood frame houses cannot be considered major incentives to incoming faculty. Most professors prefer to live in Watertown or Newton already and have no desire to move their families to Cambridge. If anything, the only incentive is to purchase these rundown structures, perform expensive reconstructions, and resell them a few years later...
Pietrasinski also made a scathing indictment of Popieluszko and the Roman Catholic Church. Said he: "Father Popieluszko was filled with hatred for socialist Poland. . . . They (the defendants) were extremists just as he (Popieluszko) was an extremist. Thus two extremist attitudes met." Pietrasinski added with subtle cynicism that the aim of the four secret policemen was to discredit Poland's Communist regime. Said he: "They used military uniforms and the financial reserves of the Interior Ministry as if to confirm that terror is being used in Poland. It is known that the kidnaping caused a great resonance. The defendants' act carries...
...conference, entitled "What Taxes Should Business Pay?," did not aim to make any specific policy recommendations, but was primarily "a chance for business people to see how the politicians are thinking" about possible tax reforms, said former Congressman Barber H. Conable (R-NY), a participant...
What distinguishes liberation theology from the mainstream of church thinking is its strong emphasis on social change in the process of spiritual improvement. As Father Jon Sobrino, a Jesuit liberation thinker living in El Salvador, puts it, the aim of liberation theology in Latin America is to "give a new form to a now wretched reality." In analyzing that social reality, some liberation theologians make heavy use of left-wing social science, and in that sense, writes Sobrino, "the influence of Marx on the conception of theological understanding is evident...
...Pope has consistently spoken out on behalf of the poor and against social injustice, more often and more vigorously than any of his predecessors. He has relentlessly continued to stress both the evils of Marxism and the need for priests to avoid direct involvement in politics. In effect, his aim has been to co-opt the acceptable themes of liberation theology, while trimming away its objectionable elements. As one high official of the Roman Curia puts it, John Paul's strategy is "to show that he is the premier liberation theologian...