Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal 1973 appropriation contracted out, he simply ordered the Agriculture Department not to spend the remaining $220 million. His action has stirred a whirlwind of resentment among some Representatives and Senators who are determined to see Congress retain its power over the national purse strings. Several bills that aim at forcing Nixon to spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House. They don't know the difference between an ear of corn...
...magic" that has surrounded the sacrament. The rite will no longer be given to persons who have died before the priest arrives, because the church now emphasizes that the recipient should have a positive faith in the sacrament's grace. Says liturgical expert Father Secondo Mazzarello: "The aim now is to comfort the sick person. Pain and sickness are seen as the problems of the entire man, body and soul together. The new rite gets away from the Platonic concept, which for centuries split man into body and soul...
...class received college acceptances not long after the inauguration of a President who would take dead aim at student activism, and not miss. We have witnessed the ascent of Nixonian Washington; we have watched its maestro change the face of America over the past four years, employing outright assaults on civil liberties, a determination to squelch or circumvent political opposition, and a jumbled conception of domestic and international priorities. Now that he has turned four years of criminal warfare into a so-called "honorable peace," we find ourselves in an odd position. We are the future of America at peace...
...were any planets in orbit around Epsilon Eridani, at least one might be at the right distance from the parent star to receive enough light and heat to sustain the evolution of life. In fact, the similarities between Epsilon Eridani and the sun prompted radio astronomers in 1960 to aim their big antennas at the star in a brief-and unsuccessful -effort to detect radio emissions that might be emanating from a civilization on a planet in orbit around...
Oberlin football team had gone winless in eight games the season before he arrived, had an obvious rejoinder: "How can we destroy sports with a record like that? We have nowhere to go but up." Describing himself as a "radical populist," Scott insists that his aim is not to de-emphasize but to "democratize" sports. In an odd non sequitur, he adds: "What no one realizes is that I voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and read Ayn Rand...