Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something new is Radio Caroline, a golden oldie that used to aim her programs into Britain from three separate ships until Parliament passed a special law silencing pirate broadcasts. Radio Caroline, which was named by her Irish owner Ronan O'Rahilly (pronounced O'Reilly) after John F. Kennedy's daughter, has now been reduced to one ship, a rusty old coastal vessel called Mi Amigo. Just before Christmas, she anchored in the 300-yd. gap between Veronica and Northsea, five miles off the coast of The Netherlands, and started competing with them for Dutch listeners...
...aim of her appointment is to make Harvard more easily accessible to the Boston community," he said. "There is so much more Harvard could be doing in that area...
...Taking Aim at Job Training" [Dec. 18]: critics of this program have a point of view akin to that of gold miners in the old West who threw away "troublesome stuff," which later turned out to be silver. On Jan. 22, 1973, Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier will go up against what was the human equivalent of "troublesome stuff": George Foreman. He was a juvenile delinquent when he heard a public-service "spot" suggesting Job Corps as a solution. He came to Litton Industries' Parks Job Corps Center, and began working toward a high school diploma, which he earned...
...with controls. Neither have his primary economic aides, notably Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They would clearly like to loosen the system, perhaps by exempting more retailers, landlords and small-to medium-size companies. Most important, however, high Administration officials aim soon to relax the limits on profit-margin increases, which have infuriated many businessmen...
Kissinger continued to display good cheer for the photographers, but his optimism finally began to fade when Le Duc Tho gave him Hanoi's long-delayed protocol governing the I.C.C. on "the night before I was to leave Paris, six weeks after we had stated what our aim was, five weeks after the ceasefire was supposed to be signed." To the U.S. the proposal was a joke; it called for a force of 250 men to handle a task the U.S. thought would require a force of some...