Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology: each officer was issued a $1,000 transistorized walkie-talkie radio to keep in touch with his partner and with the district station. "We do not expect our patrolmen to look for drugs or find murderers or prevent assaults in high-rise apartment buildings," explains Camp. "Rather we aim at heightened visibility of the police to reassure a scared public...
Some programs offer classroom instruction, others on-the-job training, still others a mixture of both. They aim to place graduates in a wide variety of jobs, including auto mechanic, shoe repairman, nurse's aide, hotel bookkeeper. Coordination and supervision are spotty at best. Houston-area officials of the Labor Department's Manpower Administration do not even know how many programs are operating locally; they estimate twelve...
Ackermann's interest in the school system led her to run for School Committee, she was then the secretary of the Russell School PTA where her two children went to school. "I decided to run because I was interested in the schools and I aim for the top," she said. Running for School Committee in Cambridge is no easy task. Under the system of proportional representation, a candidate must run from the city at large and persuade at least ten per cent of the voters to make him or her their number one vote...
...full of emotion in these stories, but that emotion is joyous or pathetic according to the turn of an incident. Because he is a good smart boy, the youngster Updike depicts the town where his teacher father works, while painfully acceding to his mother's wish that he aim to fly beyond it. The tension comes from the boy's guilt-ridden love for his town, and his need to assert his identity and grow both in the town and in his home--neither, below the surface, very healthy grounds to spring from...
...bitten into the patterns that Olmsted left. Parking lots, baseball diamonds and 27 playgrounds, not to mention the Metropolitan Museum's expansion, have severely damaged Central Park itself. So grasping Olmsted's work is partly a matter of archaeology: the achievement must be reconstructed. This is the aim of a fascinating exhibition at Washington's National Gallery organized and directed by William Alex in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Olmsted's birth...