Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community activists in Brookline and Mission Hill aim their guns for another series of legal assaults on Harvard's $350-million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), the power plant's diesel electric generators are finally coming to life this spring for the first time in years. MATEP, designed to simultaneously produce steam, chilled water and electricity for hospitals in the Medical Area, has proved a costly 14-year headache for the University...
Even if students vote to maintain the status quo, council delegates say, this spring should see at least minor changes in the way the lottery is run. Those proposals, outlined in a council report compiled in the fall, would aim to "demystify" the lottery's computer program and increase the information about the Houses made available to Yardlings...
...Marxists, and fears that consolidation of the Sandinistas' hold on Nicaragua would pose a deadly danger of leftist revolution spreading not only to neighboring Central American countries but eventually even to Mexico. Washington's strategy to prevent that has been to sponsor the anti-Sandinista contras, with the avowed aim of putting pressure on the Sandinistas to stop exporting revolution. U.S. diplomats claim some success. Asserts one: "This (Sandinista) government is in trouble. It has gone 180 degrees from preaching 'revolution without frontiers' to saving its own revolution...
...instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come to the face of the earth. And their bloody rule gave way in 1978 to that of the Vietnamese, who are determined to fight "to the last Cambodian" to realize their long-sought aim of dominion over all of Indochina. The continual fighting has given rise to one of the most acute famines of modern times, has created a permanent presence of hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border, and has sent a veritable diaspora of displaced Cambodians out into the world...
...yelling, "Help me, help me. Spare my life, you people." No one heard him, and he was quickly recaptured. Pekala testified that he felt "cheated" at having to shoulder the blame for a crime he was ordered to commit. Said Pekala: "I know now that there is no aim so high to justify the killing...