Word: aims
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ENERGY. Although environmentalists may object, a major Nixon aim is a matter of genuine national urgency: to find new fuel and electrical-energy sources for the U.S. This will include support of oil supertankers, an Alaskan pipeline, nuclear breeder-reactor plants, more offshore drilling...
...Rodgers Dance Company is the creation of a comparatively recent but exciting recruit to professional dance, who in 1967 helped form the Association of Black Choreographers with the stated aim of discovering "the dancers' identity of Rhythm the Ritual, Afro in which American."the dance identity of the Afro American." Rodgers' Rhythm Ritual, in which his dancers provided their own exotic accompaniment by beating sticks and bells, seemed like an ongoing experiment that has not yet found a final form. But in Harambee!, a drama about martyred black leaders, accompanied by five on stage drummers, his flair...
...Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. The largest of the chains, this Houston-based company was started only three years ago and has already acquired 60 firms, including 35 this year. B.F.I.'s 33-year-old chairman, Louis Waters, a Harvard Business School graduate, says that his aim is to have branches in every major city in the nation. B.F.I, collects from 55,000 companies and more than 500,000 residences, and its revenues in this year's first three quarters were $115 million...
...Communists apparently never expect to hold the towns for long. One of their objectives is to keep Saigon's forces off balance and tied down while other North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units increase the pressure on Saigon itself and other key areas. A second aim is to undermine the villagers' confidence in their government and Vietnamization. But the tactics will also pay spot dividends on any given day that a ceasefire is declared, since the Washington-Hanoi agreement says that whoever holds a piece of land on the day the cease-fire commences gets to keep...
...Oxford English Dictionary is composed of 15,487 pages parceled into ten volumes containing the history of more unusual words than even William F. Buckley Jr. could ever use. From 1884 to 1928, the contents of the O.E.D. had accreted with the steady persistence of stalactites. The aim was to list all the "common words" in written English from about the time of Alfred the Great, together with illustrations of their usages through the centuries...