Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crusade, a committee will be established by the state legislature to consider changes in the penal system. Former U.S. Senator Charles Goodell has set up a committee of scholars to conduct a study of prison reform. State Deputy Attorney General Robert Fischer is briskly probing the rebellion with the aim of bringing possible indictments against some of the inmates...
Dentists have long attempted to correct some conditions by bridging sections of jawbone with particles of bone from other parts of the body. But the aim of the Denver trio-Drs. William Hiatt, Robert Schallhorn and William Boyce-is to regenerate bone rather than replace it. They graft marrow around the tooth to encourage new growth in the bone surrounding...
...hijackers who had been caught. Hubbard found his subjects sexually passive: "I've yet to meet a skyjacker who ever seduced a woman." Although hijackers are often folk heroes of the New Left, they are, if anything, right-wingers, and those who want to go to Cuba may aim "to assassinate Castro, not to join...
...operation was speeded up. At 9:32, a radio observer in a helicopter reported that hostages, guarded by six inmates, were confined within a circle of park benches in the yard. Sharpshooters were advised to take aim at the threatening convicts?"but you'll have to have hostile action by the inmates to fire." Then the two helicopters, loaded with tear-gas canisters, swept low over the prison, one of them barely clearing the walls. "To all posts," barked the command radio. "Jackpot One is about to make drop." There was a pause. "Jackpot has made drop. Base...
...other. In his conflicting role as women's liberator and amiable guardian of traditional femininity, Reuben asks: "Should a woman really do something as terrible as that?" Naturally, the good liberal doctor would not want to be responsible for the violent consequences of an unsure grip or poor aim directed at a moving target. His cop-out answer: "It's up to her. Being raped can be pretty terrible...