Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warned Spínola that the rally was a cover for a countercoup led by extreme right-wing forces loyal to the old regime. The plot, according to the government, called for the assassination of both Spínola and Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. The purported aim was to create chaos if not civil war, thus enabling the extreme right wing to seize power...
Major Vitor Alves, a Minister Without Portfolio in the Gonçalves Cabinet, told TIME'S Robert Kroon last week that other members of the government had never had any quarrel with Spínola about the revolution's fundamental aim of restoring civil liberties and holding democratic elections. "The trouble was," Alves said, "that Spínola had a different analysis of how to go about this process. He was too pessimistic, too gloomy, too rigid...
...mini-summits. Few disputed that budget and monetary policies will have to remain relatively tight. There are differences of degree-whether federal spending this fiscal year should be kept at its budgeted level of $305 billion or cut below $300 billion, as Ford proposes; whether the Federal Reserve should aim to expand the nation's money supply 5% or 7% a year-but the range of dispute is fairly narrow...
Finance Minister, Giscard always seemed to be a cold, remote bureaucrat. But he set the country on its ear at his very first presidential press conference, declaring: "I aim first of all to dust off the republic." That is precisely what he has done. From his low-keyed inauguration and his subsequent stroll along the Champs-Elysées, Giscard has launched an all-out effort to stamp his presidency as young, relaxed, liberal and open...
...tried to make a mystery out of my beliefs and actions owing to the fact that my father, Thomas W. Lamont, was a successful banker. But both my father and mother were warm, sympathetic, generous individuals who were liberals on most issues of importance and shared with me the aim of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number...In a real sense, I have carried on in the spirit of my parents, though thinking their goals would be more likely achieved through leftist solutions...