Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time defending co-champions began the year with one aim. "Our goal is to win it outright. "Coach jot said at season's start. That goal come screeching to and end last week at Penn...
...spring practice, Sorbara injured his shoulder, but didn't give up. "The only thing I was worried about was getting a shot at playing," he recalls. When the injury healed, he continued to aim for his goal...
...whether Washington's support for the contras was designed merely to put pressure on the Nicaraguan government to stop its support of the Salvadoran rebels, as the Administration claims, or to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, as critics charge. According to Casey, the CIA-supplied documents state that the aim of the contras "is the development of a democratic and pluralistic government in Nicaragua." Countered Republican Senator Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "The policy implied is the overthrow of an established government...
...This will give people it sense of what to aim for," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman, an expert in the education field. He added the new report will motivate schools to eliminate the grade inflation and "excessive leniency" that characterize much of higher education today...
...aim is still true, judging from the congenially berserk glad rags for men and women that he showed in Paris last week. Extremely deft, marketable clothing was mixed in with deliberately parodistic fantasies. There were gauzy see-through gossamers over checked bikini briefs for men; hiya-big-boy bathing suits for women that transform breasts into medium-range ballistic missiles; and sarongs for everyone. But there were also roomy, temperate suits for both sexes, and a selection of loungewear and splendor-in-the-grass sunsuits that managed to be forthrightly sexy without turning coy. It was shrewd and prototypical Gaultier...