Word: aims
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...most surprising specific disclosures of the Times's papers include: WAR AIMS. Both publicly and in a National Security memorandum in March 1964, President Johnson insisted that the central U.S. aim was to secure...
Beyond test results, schools like Wilde Lake aim to redefine what a modern school should teach. In the year 2000, Wilde Lake's current students will be in their early 40s and surely just as much in need of the ability to cope with rapid change as of antique knowledge memorized in school. Many parents find this hard to accept. Alarmed that her child was short on traditional dates and facts, one mother recently complained that Wilde Lake kids do not know what year The Star-Spangled Banner was written.* "That's true," replied a teacher, "but they...
...Mayday demonstrations was not fascism. The repression came instead from a liberal democracy, caught deep in its own contradictions, trying to maintain order. And, obviously, the traffic blocking action was not revolution. For both sides it was a warm-up, a partial unveiling of tactics with the aim of winning a broad base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops on call...
...indeed the aim of the selection committee was to get away from the conservative, almost static, meticulously controlled game of football Yovicsin developed during his tenure here, its efforts can be safely prejudged as successful...
...foie gras were eliminated for economy rea sons) spread in the State Dining Room not far from the multistoried cake. After an interval at the reception, Tricia will climb halfway up the red-carpeted grand stairs and toss her bouquet down to the attendants waiting below; if Tricia's aim is on, it probably will fall to Ed's 25-year-old sister Maizie, who will be a brides maid. Then, reversing the White House pattern of more than 100 years ? brides customarily change to traveling clothes and sneak away ? Tricia and Eddie will leave by the North...