Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roberts said the four-year-old programs aim to bring together health personnel from the public and private sectors...
...very angry, I get very cheerful. But I do have a sense of holy anger. Anybody who says there is never a time when he is not motivated by anger should never be a leader. I want to leave a lot of things up my sleeve. But my aim is to avoid the mistakes of other countries who say they will be a jet flying, but only go up and soon crash. You just watch us: we shall teach the rest of the world how to be sober about independence...
Wilson, a prominent member of the conservative caucus, recalls that the group's aim was not specifically to bolster the University administration. Its objective, he and other participants say, was "to keep the University do-politicized"--an aim that--in view of the political nature of any caucus--even the late Robert G. McClosky, professor of Government and leader of the caucus, admitted was somewhat "paradoxical...
More than almost anything else, the nation needs an energy program that can blunt the OPEC threat. The world simply cannot be presented with the continuing spectacle of its most powerful economy slipping into energy bondage to a handful of regimes that aim for one of history's most massive transfers of wealth from other countries. Nor should Americans tolerate complacent reassurances that everything will be all right if folks would just put on sweaters and drive at 55 m.p.h. What good is conservation if the cartel can make up for declines in demands by simply pushing...
Ayckbourn's aim is to write about serious matters in a funny way. One-liners terrify him even more than dentists and barbers. "There are not more than three funny lines in all of Bedroom Farce," he says proudly. At this point Heather confides his real ambition. "What Alan would like to do," she says, "is to write a funny King Lear." But with at least two third acts...