Word: aims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago more as victors than as victims. Long before the Democratic Convention assembled, the protest leaders who organized last week's marches and melees realized that they stood no chance of influencing the political outcome or reforming "the system." Thus their strategy became one of calculated provocation. The aim was to irritate the police and the party bosses so intensely that their reactions would look like those of mindless brutes and skull-busters. After all the blood, sweat and tear gas, the dissidents had pretty well succeeded in doing just that...
...years ago, was so closely tailed by plainclothesmen that he finally donned a yippie-style wig to escape their attentions. Nonetheless, he was arrested. Rennie Davis, 28, the clean-cut son of a Truman Administration economic adviser, took a more active part as one of the Chicago organizers: his aim, he said, was "to force the police state to become more and more visible, yet somehow survive in it." At Grant Park on Wednesday afternoon, he both succeeded and failed. The police action against the demonstrators triggered the Hilton march, but Rennie-despite his short hair, scholarly spectacles and button...
...Democrats into taking a stiffer law-and-order stance? Or was he striking back at those party members who urged that he be retired by the next Administration? The FBI insists that the delay was caused by the complexity of the fact-finding job. Whatever Hoover's aim, he hit two targets. The gun, said the report, was used in 63% of all murders, 21% of the aggravated assaults and 63% of the armed robberies. Moreover, as crime rose, the rate of cases solved dropped by 8%. Last year, said the FBI, only one in five crimes was solved...
Epstein decided that the real aim of introductory biology, at least for non-science majors, must be simply to let the student "know what a biologist does when he's doing biology." The student who understands that, he reasoned, will appreciate the nature of the creative activity involved. So Epstein, 48, fashioned a new "upsidedown" course in which he plunged his students into a detailed examination of one of his own research papers. He spent a week answering questions about the terms used, three weeks helping students to figure out how he had gone about the research and reached...
...Stanford's quality gave him a high goal to work toward when he was at Rice, Pitzer is no less ambitious now. His aim, he says, is "to make Stanford as strong as Harvard and M.I.T. - put together...