Word: aiming
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...aim of this book is to destroy her husband's political career, then it's almost a mercy killing. The author painstakingly details how their partnership, which started as one in which family values and a desire to make a contribution were shared, came unglued as she stayed at home to raise their children and he focused more on politics. She left her high-powered banking job in New York City and moved to South Carolina for him - willingly, she says. She ran four successful campaigns for him, more or less willingly, for no pay. She spent six years raising...
Since I had spent the day with my ball going in any direction other than the one in which I intended it, my mother suggested that I simply aim for the tree and the ball would probably end up on the fairway. Of course, that was when my aim suddenly became accurate; I had to take four swings, and hit four trees, before I managed to make it out of the woods. Yet by the end of J-Term, after putting in a lot of hard work, I did successfully manage to play a few full rounds of 18 holes...
...open forum last September, Smith announced that FAS had closed half of its two-year $220 million budgetary gap, noting that the administration would aim to slash another $20 million from the deficit for the fiscal year ending in 2010. But the new figure suggests that the administration has exceeded its expectations...
...Coolidge Corner Theatre presents the “Science on Screen” series, in its fifth year, in association with The Museum of Science and New Scientist Magazine. “The aim of the series is to educate about science while entertaining through movies, presenting a feature film or feature-length documentary on a science/medical-related topic,” theatre’s associate director Elizabeth Taylor-Mead said in an email...
While Orton describes a cast of scrappy players who know their playing days are coming to an end, the current squad is filled with higher-caliber athletes, many of whom aim to make basketball a career...