Word: aims
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...that summit, OPEC leaders want to discuss not only oil but also the prices of other products. They aim to get an "indexing" agreement under which their oil prices would go up from the already high base as the prices of their own imports rise. Says Kissinger: "The best thing that can happen next year ?and in fact I think the best will happen?would be that we would achieve consumer solidarity and then have a conference with the producers. That, together with energetic conservation measures and energetic development of alternative resources, may lead perhaps to a lowering...
...Aim: A Redistribution of Wealth...
...giants of biblical criticism who emerged in 19th century Germany basically believed in the Christian message but carried over from the Enlightenment the emphasis on the Bible as a human work. Their aim was to find the historical core of Scripture by confronting it with an entire range of scientific disciplines: linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, comparative religion. There were other influences, too. Hegel's philosophy of history characterized the "Tubingen School" of criticism, which saw the New Testament as a synthesis of competing theses in early Christianity: the Jewish church centered around Peter, the Gentile church around Paul...
...away. These are 20th century Indians, fired by the militancy that prompted the occupations of Alcatraz in 1969 and Wounded Knee in 1973. They ride in cars toward their encounters with the white man. Their warriors are lawyers, who fight with manifestoes and 200-year-old treaties. But their aim is to return to the old ways. To do that they demand their ancestral lands...
...Washington, Schmidt's main aim was simply to get acquainted with Gerald Ford. There are no major issues dividing Bonn and Washington, and Schmidt wanted to meet with Ford's top economic advisers to try to better coordinate the U.S.-German attack on inflation and world recession. He also urged the U.S. to take much stronger steps to conserve energy. For their part, Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wanted to hear more about Schmidt's somewhat gloomy views on the future of the Atlantic community...