Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, all too easy now to fault Nehru for his vaulting ambition to create a modern India through industrialization that would make it independent of the West. For one thing, his aim to a large degree has been accomplished; one of the reasons India was able to defeat Pakistan in last December's war was the fact that it now can produce its own planes and weapons...
...clubroom at the end of the hallway. It is decorated with red and white bunting (for upcoming Labor Day festivities) and American flags. It also has a new remote-controlled dart game. For a quarter a game, members can sit at the bar and operate little black boxes that aim electronic darts at a bull's-eye. Between dart games and watching the closed-circuit television to see who is coming through the front door (a favorite sport), there is dancing-last week to a teenage combo called the Patriots...
...first AIM ad took NBC's David Brinkley to task last January in the Washington Post for likening the U.S. to 19th century Prussia because it spent about two-thirds of "regular tax income" for military purposes (AIM claimed the U.S. figure was more like 40% of all income taxes). In June, AIM took a two-column ad in the New York Times to condemn Correspondent Anthony Lewis for reporting as fact from Hanoi that the U.S. mining of Haiphong harbor was ineffective without checking out the facts. AIM plans to place another ad in the Times charging Columnist...
Critics of AIM claim it is prone to nitpicking and preoccupied with criticizing news judgment rather than errors of fact. But Abraham Kalish, 66, the organization's executive secretary and former feature writer for the U.S. Information Agency, insists: "All we're interested in is accuracy-to be an ever-present prod to the news media so they will strive to be sure their stories are accurate...
...their money-losing efforts to combat A. & P.'s assault, many chains are seeking new ways to boost earnings. One new wrinkle is round-the-clock service, which has been adopted by some or all stores in the Jewel, Pathmark, Arlan's and other chains. They aim to attract new customers while A. & P. and other competing stores are closed. Says Marvin Lerner, executive vice president of Manhattan-based Bohack, which has put its discount chain of Village Stores on a 24-hour schedule: "We've competed as far as we can go on price...