Word: aims
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Last week's discussions were aimed at extending the 1972 agreement into the field of multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles - clusters of nuclear warheads that can be fired together but aimed separately. The U.S. still leads the Soviets in MIRV technology and total number of warheads, while the Soviets have a strong edge in throw weight, or the ultimate explosive force that its larger missiles can land on a target. The aim was to find a formula for what U.S. negotiators call "essential equivalence." The U.S. wants to set a limit on the total payload carried by land...
Once the black hole was positioned in a permanent orbit around the earth, its gravity could be tapped. From a distance of 100 yds. or so-far enough away to avoid being drawn into the black hole -an automatic firing mechanism on a spacecraft orbiting near by would aim tiny pellets of matter at it. Almost any material would do. As each pellet plunged toward the black hole, it would be squeezed and heated by the gravitational field to tremendously high temperatures, perhaps 100 million degrees...
...relations campaign designed to highlight the President's achievements in office and the sanctity of the presidency itself. At the same time the effort seeks to obfuscate and obscure Nixon's own Watergate role and portray impeachment as a partisan movement spearheaded by political enemies. At a minimum, the aim is to build enough pressure on normally friendly Senators to prevent conviction on any House-approved impeachment charge...
...that security cannot be measured by the distance of the frontier from Tel Aviv, but at the same time they fear that territorial advantages such as the Golan Heights will be traded for unreliable promises. Polls have shown that the majority of Israelis still believe that the Arabs' ultimate aim is to destroy the state. Such a sentiment precludes a major shift to the left. So while the right's leadership cannot convince the public that it can govern, the left is also unable to achieve significant popular support...
...that is the aim, the campaign is a long way from success. Largely because of Chou's leadership, since the Tenth Party Congress last August, membership in the Politburo is stable for the first time in nearly a decade. The power of independent military commanders in the provinces was curbed by a shuffle of command posts late in January. Moreover, several dozen formerly discredited cadres who owe their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting...