Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make war by the gentlemanly rules favored by their imperial predecessors. "My uncle fought the British on the border after his father was killed by them in battle," recalls Haji Khan, a rheumy-eyed septuagenarian. "But the British did not kill old people, children and women; they would not aim their artillery at innocent people." The Communists, by contrast, massacred civilians. Worst of all, when government troops finally broke through to Dobanday, a Soviet adviser marched into the central mosque, tore up the Koran and put a torch to the building...
...cares little about presidential policy and often slips out of secret White House briefings, bored. He worries far less about Soviet missiles and accusations of Administration sleaziness than he does about how those issues-and all others-threaten his boss. For Mike Deaver, at 46, has essentially one aim in life, and that is serving Ronald Reagan. For 18 years, after he stopped selling IBM supplies in Bakersfield, Calif, and got into politics, Deaver has been confidant, protector, image polisher and keeper of state and family secrets. Now he knows Ronald Reagan better than any other man alive...
...David Lean and Lord Snowdon take aim at A Passage to India
...more tolerant, less restrictive age, the Sears catalog mixed the art of salesmanship with a little bunkum. "We Aim to Illustrate Honestly and Correctly Every Article," Sears stated around the turn of the century. But that did not stop the company from claiming that its goods were "celebrated," "of the finest quality," "thoroughly high grade" not to mention "cheapest...
...networks are spending about $15 million apiece on their 1984 convention coverage and feeling abused. Though the Republicans and Democrats all but turn over their halls to television, the political parties do try to deny it one wish: television wants controversy; the parties aim for tranquillity. You can expect to see in Dallas, as in San Francisco, cameras diverted from the podium to watch the networks' high-priced news performers, wearing Mickey Mouse headsets and pushing through crowds, foraging forlornly for nonnews. At the convention's transcending moments, the big speeches, television is at its best...