Word: aiming
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...identifying behavioral cues of intoxication and developing intervention strategies. Alan Moghul, director of prevention at NASADAD, said that the award program—established a little over 20 years ago—“seeks to identify and award very innovative, very successful, cutting-edge programs that aim to prevent substance abuse in their community.” 21 Proof’s unique strategy set them apart from the pool of 40 applicants, Moghul said. “They are very effective, and this type of environmental strategy takes into account all the interests of stakeholders, business community...
...first and second varsity eights finished in the middle of the pack. But results aren’t everything, and the heavyweights understand the season is long and the Head of the Charles is just the start. “We always go into our race with an aim to win—it’s not worth going out to the race unless you want to win it,” junior co-captain Liz Demers said. “But we were really proud with the outcome. The boat felt really good throughout the race, our coxswain...
...voice their unhappiness with the government at the polling booths. In an unusual move, Tusk and other party leaders even traveled outside of Poland to campaign, visiting both London and Dublin in the past month. Sikorski, an Oxford graduate who joined Tusk on the campaign trail, said the aim was to reach not just Poles working in the United Kingdom, but also their families back home. The strategy paid off: turnout among the diaspora was two to three times higher than it was two years ago, and votes went disproportionately against the PIS: preliminary results indicate that it received only...
...offered a novelist-father’s more self-reflective perspective. “Does she have a stomachache? Or maybe she is discovering the taste of her melancholy. Let her be, let her be sad, let her lose herself in solitude and her own smell. The first aim of an intelligent person is to achieve unhappiness when everyone around her is happy,” he read. A self-characterized graphomaniac and author of seven novels including “Snow” and “My Name is Red,” Pamuk reminisced about the burgeoning...
...operations by special forces units from a base just inside the Iraq border, to be established after a "large-scale initial land offensive." He added that "as far as is possible, Turkish troops will not venture into heavily populated territory. This will be a surgical operation. Turkey's aim is not to invade Iraq...