Word: aims
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...West Bank, the Arab endorsement of the P.L.O. placed Israel in an agonizing dilemma. The Israelis have steadfastly insisted that any future settlement involving the West Bank must involve Jordan; they have refused even to consider discussions with what Premier Yitzhak Rabin has described as "terrorist organizations whose avowed aim is Israel's destruction." The Rabat decision seemed to mean that there could be no negotiations on the West Bank?and for that matter no overall settlement?unless the Palestinian question, meaning the P.L.O., was faced directly...
...unarticulated line "adds to the decay and the transitional nature of the community," Herold said. "Our aim is to keep the neighborhood stabilized and get people...
LEGISLATORS IN WASHINGTON are whipping up a backlash against affirmative action programs that aim at righting the for-too-long-wrong numbers of blacks, women and other minorities employed in higher education...
...fact, affirmative action goals are not quotas, since they are not binding. They are not reverse discrimination, since they aim only at reversing discrimination--that is, making tenure committees and personnel offices search out applicant pools they previously ignored. No colleges have yet lost federal grants or contracts for failure to reach them. And the only discrimination in higher education the federal government has ever bankrolled came before the Civil Rights Act was extended in 1972 to cover university employers--when federal agencies shovelled taxpayers' money into institutions with all-white, all-male payrolls...
...major aim of the bill is to prevent dissemination of information from the files outside of the school system without the written consent of the student. Harvard has traditionally refused to allow anyone to see the files without student authorization--though the student, of course has not been able to authorize his own inspection of them. But many universities and public schools regularly release such information. A staff report by the Governor's privacy commission last summer showed that a number of public colleges in Massachusetts release data to government agencies without obtaining the student's consent...