Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international organization called the Hunger Project has declared its aim to be the elimination of hunger in 20 years. Is 20 years enough? Is it too idealistic? In the words of the National Academy of Sciences, we can "end the worst aspects of hunger and starvation before the end of the century...
...stated aim of the Core Curriculum is to provide each Harvard undergraduate with a broad basis of knowledge upon which to build later in life. That is, to guarantee that we receive a "liberal arts education." It is argued that the present system of general education and distribution requirements can be abused, that it really does not provide the aforementioned guarantee. For example, a Biology major can fulfill his social sciences requirement by taking neurophysiology courses offered by the Psychology Department without really broadening his horizons beyond the landscape of biology...
...leaders, accompanied by 18 TIME editors, correspondents and executives, last week completed a 16-day, 8,000-mile trip that began in South Africa and ended in Egypt. The tour was the sixth sponsored by TIME in the past 15 years to various parts of the world with the aim of helping the travelers become better informed about the global problems that so deeply affect us all. Day after day, the group was able to question closely, and at length, a number of key figures who are trying to bring peace to their nations. Among the hosts of the traveling...
...accented Italian. An additional element was the chilling professional precision exhibited by one of the killers. One bodyguard had managed to get out of the car and fire three shots at the terrorists-yet one of the killers was cool enough to take two to three seconds for careful aim before shooting the bodyguard in the center of his forehead...
...Mara." The two moved to Milan, where they swiftly became zealots of armed struggle. The Red Brigades were set up in November 1970 as "an armed proletariat vanguard to be the revolutionary power of the exploited classes." The Communists, in the organization's view, had sold out; the aim of the brigatisti, much like that of 19th century anarchists, was to purify society by overthrowing all existing institutions. But the Red Brigades seem to have no coherent vision of what would replace them...