Word: aims
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...contracts, one of $145,000 and the other of $585,000, will aim at developing models capable of explaining wide-spread migration patterns in the United States and explaining the evolution of neighborhoods...
Rodino's aim has been to lay out all of the major allegations of presidential misconduct to determine whether there is an overall pattern of impeachable activity. "Is there a relationship among these things?" Rodino asks, meaning such matters as the Watergate coverup, the ITT and milk deals, the underpayment of taxes by Nixon, the Ellsberg burglary and other "plumber" activities, the secret bombing and the spurning of subpoenas. "Is there a connection between him and them?" The question, Rodino suggests, is "whether there was a serious abuse of power, a failure to faithfully execute the laws, scandal...
...concludes the introduction to Kissinger, a breezy, sometimes biting but largely admiring and affectionate portrait of the Secretary of State in action to be published August 23 by Little, Brown. Its authors are CBS Correspondents Marvin and Bernard Kalb, and their aim is not history or biography, but careful journalism with final judgments held to a minimum. Marvin, 44, and Bernard, 52, have followed Kissinger around the world for CBS and have had access to a wide range of sources, including Kissinger himself, though the Secretary had no part hi the book's writing or editing. Their account...
...spoken words as he called for Americans to rally round the President. Said Faisal: "Anybody who stands against you, Mr. President, in the United States of America or outside the United States of America, or stands against us, your friends in this part of the world, obviously has one aim in mind - namely, that of causing the splintering of the world, the wrong polarization of the world, the bringing about of mischief that would not be conducive to tranquillity and peace in the world...
Such views, especially regarding economics and slave inefficiency, lasted into the 20th century, when they were adapted by Historian U.B. Phillips, a Southern racist whose aim was to rehabilitate the cruel plantation owners. Though he successfully showed that many slaves were well fed and cared for, he accepted the notion that plantations were not run for a profit. Instead, he argued, plantations, "were the best schools yet invented for the mass training of that sort of inert and backward people...