Word: aims
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...amendment sponsored by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, which so directly challenges the authority of the courts that even he concedes that it is probably unconstitutional. Yet Griffin, who is up for re-election and whose state is aroused over busing orders in some of its major cities, said his aim was to influence the Supreme Court as it hears appeals against busing plans ordered by the lower courts. Griffin's amendment also prohibits federal authorities from withholding educational funds as a means of pressuring school districts into busing children. This is in apparent conflict with the Civil Rights...
...than the alternatives." He likes campaigning and manages to find some consolation in almost any adversity. One Democrat complained: "I don't know who I'm for, I just don't want Nixon." Undaunted, Ashbrook replied: "Well, you and I have something in common." His main aim is to press Nixon back toward the right by "holding up a standard for people who still consider themselves conservatives." He concedes that if he does not top McCloskey's showing, it will be a setback...
According to a spokesman for the Student Vote, Inc., a Washington-based foundation whose aim is to involve students in the registration of new voters, only 15 per cent of Cambridge's 18- to 21-year-old age group are already registered. The organization hopes to register at least 100 more such voters tonight, working in cooperation with the League of Women Voters and the Cambridge Elections Board...
With the defeat the Frosh moved their season record to an uninspiring 7-8, a mark that does no justice to the team's capabilities. The cagers have now won three of their last six games and aim to better that tally with this week's contests against Brown and Yale...
...packages. But Papanek indicts his own colleagues for forgetting the context of their innovative work. Since they occupy a key position in the transformation of an idea into a product, he says, designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...