Word: aims
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...answer to criticism of the Administration's restrictive economic policies during a minisummit on social services held at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Arguing against cuts in social services, Jerry Wurf, fiery president of the State, County and Municipal Employees Union, charged that Government policies aim to shunt most of the burden of fighting inflation on the poor. Replying that everyone is hurt by inflation, Greenspan said: "If you really wanted to examine, percentagewise, who is hurt most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers...
Cooled Passions. Thus Ford rationalized that a Nixon pardon would contribute to "the greatest good of all the people of the United States," his overriding aim. Yet the Nixon pardon raised far graver questions about "the credibility of our free institutions" than would a proper and probably illuminating trial. One of the few consolations in the entire Watergate affair had been that those institutions had persevered against the most calculated cover-up efforts of the highest official in the land; now the judicial process was being aborted in Nixon's favor...
...detailed, hard-hitting and far-reaching brief to the CAB. The carrier reiterated its need for a "temporary" subsidy, but went much further. What really is needed, said Pan Am, is a more sweeping, permanent solution. The airline proposed a major rethinking of U.S. overseas air policy, with the aim of eliminating head-on competition between itself and TWA, nipping potential new overseas competition from U.S. carriers before it even gets started, and securing the firm backing of the Government in the private carriers' losing battle against other nations' heavily subsidized, state-run airlines...
Centennial is intended as Michener's 200th-birthday present to the U.S. His setting is a small, fictional town, first called Zendt's Farm, then Centennial, on the eastern slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references...
...pity. For Caro's fine portrait has a troubling mystery at its heart. Moses' avowed aim was public service. There is no evidence that he tried to enrich himself at public expense. He pursued power to be free to do what he regarded as good works. Caro asserts, and the record seems to bear out, that power eventually became an end in itself. But, a sheer arrogance and the difficulty of getting things done aside, the book never explains...