Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical aim of these steps is to break the deadly circle in which inflation devalues the dollar, which in turn pushes up the prices of imported goods, which in turn worsens inflation. But like many governmental economic steps, this is also a psychological action designed to show the world that Carter is finally ready to move determinedly against U.S. inflation, which recently hit an annual rate of 10%. Said Carter to a Wall Street crowd, as he stood later in the week beneath a bronze statue of George Washington outside Federal Hall: "I mean business. I do not intend...
...aim of the charter is to build up a military bloc on Israel's northeastern border that would be strong enough to worry the Israelis into making concessions, but not threatening enough to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement...
...view Stoppard's conception from the Eisenstein cinematic angle--that film should not aim to recreate reality as it is but as the filmmaker sees it, that the film director should use every cinematic resource to present his vision visually and aurally to to the viewer in such a way that the viewer has no choice but to experience it emotionally. If you accept this line, Despair, with its struggle between life and art, real reality and film reality, could be the quintessential film, almost an apotheosis of cinematic form. Well...
...young comrades behind the counter are apt to be woefully ignorant of the objets d'art they are selling. In Wusih, a customer reasonably well versed in Chinese asks a salesgirl the exact meaning of the calligraphy on a 200-year-old wall scroll. Her hesitant reply: "Aim high to build our country," which is purest Mao. The scroll actually reproduces a philosophical poem by the Ch'ing dynasty's Tsu Shao-tseng...
...straightaway, three-quarters of a mile. Then just when you think you've got it made, there's some clown sneaking up on your port side to challenge you for the inside of the turn. Weeks Bridge sports the trickiest turn in the course--you sort of want to aim for the outside edge of the center arch and turn sharply right before you enter the bridge. Watch out, if you've done it right you'll just miss losing some paint off your port blades on the inside of the arch. Gulp, swallow. But, hey, you're halfway there...