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Word: aims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the dogged Watergate veteran signed on with the House's Koreagate investigation last July, he has been trying to question Park. He will get his chance this week and next at closed-door Ethics Committee sessions in the Rayburn House Office Building. His aim is to get Park to go beyond what he told Justice officials last January in Seoul. There, Park said he had given $750,000 not only as political campaign contributions but also as "gifts" to five former Congressmen. At the same time, Park denied paying off all those named on the lists assembled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Park Returns | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...becoming looser, splashier, more atmospheric than it had ever been before. The drawing loosened too, and the place supplied him with a different subject matter-a landscape of dunes and water reflections, green groves and pink bodies half eroded by light, full of softness and coarse sexual ebullience. The aim of the new show at New York City's Guggenheim Museum, "Willem de Kooning in East Hampton," is to sum up this work. It does, with nearly 100 paintings, drawings and sculptures, ranging from 1962 to 1977, and an excellent catalogue by Curator of Exhibitions Diane Waldman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Softer De Koonings | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...ACSR is even more indefensible now that the group of representatives from the Houses and the Yard that chose the undergraduate ACSR member decided to continue meeting to research upcoming ACSR issues and advise the undergraduate representative of student views on these issues. The group's legitimate and admirable aim is effectively thwarted by the ACSR's operating procedure...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: The ACSR Shuffle | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

While she personally believes there are "very, very few occasions when lying is justified," Bok said the lectures will not aim to define when lying is appropriate, but only to give the listener a personal basis for making decisions of that kind...

Author: By Harry Litman, | Title: Sissela Bok to Give Four Lectures On Telling the Truth | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

Haldeman, who is expected to be released from Lompoc prison as early as this summer, is currently insulated from the storm his book is stirring. It certainly is not, as he concedes, the full story of Watergate, and is far from the final one. Despite the claim that his aim was finally to "tell the truth" about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Much Ado About Haldeman | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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