Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise, the astronauts had no trouble dozing. "You can sleep on your back, on your side, on your stomach," explained Conrad. Moving about was effortless in zero-G. "All you have to do is to aim and take off," said Conrad...
...Arab bankers stress that their main aim is to channel into long-term investments a growing share of the oil money flooding the Mideast ($12 billion in 1971, an estimated $60 billion a year by 1980). Says El-kaissouni, a graduate of the London School of Economics: "This kind of mixed Arab-European bank is a way for the Arabs to have a greater share in the management of their funds and a greater participation in the profits." He also sees the banking partnerships as a triangle involving "the technical financial skills of Europe, the capital of the Arabs...
...Always, the conversations were couched in political terms rather than in any regard for national security. The implication of the talks was that 1) Nixon had failed utterly to convey his concern for national security, or 2) these officials on their own had decided that politics was the priority aim, or 3) Nixon's security explanation was contrived after the fact...
Harrison wanted to bring big-time basketball to Harvard, and to fulfill this aim, he successfully recruited some of the best high school talent in the country. But somehow, despite the blue-chip ballplayers that Harrison had at his disposal, a productive and rewarding basketball program never materialized...
...only a matter of time-and not much time-before various entrepreneurs began flooding the market with Watergate games, gadgets and paraphernalia. Those who like to relax at home with a good scandal can test their aim at a Watergate dart board, or brood over a Watergate jigsaw puzzle, or even write their friends on Watergate stationery. Or they can listen to a recording of the first (but undoubtedly not the last) country-and-western Watergate ballad, At the Watergate (The Truth Come Pouriri Out). Sample lyric: "If you're wonderin' why they wouldn't blow...