Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aim, says Quebec's Cultural Affairs Minister Camille Laurin, is "to make Quebec as French as Ontario is English." It is also a de facto move toward separation...
...output. Because they are beginning to convert their industries from coal to oil. the Chinese keep most of the oil for themselves. Only 10% of the nation's production is exported, mostly to Japan to finance the purchase of much-needed industrial and technological equipment. China's aim is to quadruple production, to roughly 8 million...
...Mitterrand. But since there is no Fifth Republic precedent for a leftist Premier and Cabinet working under a center-right President, there are grave worries that collisions over their deep policy differences could paralyze the government and sharply divide the country. Preventing such a development was clearly the aim of Giscard's tough speech, which was directed at the 20% of the voters who the polls say are still undecided...
...ruthlessness, its spectacle ... its entire apparatus were inscribed in the political functioning of the penal system." Then, within 40 years (1769-1810), Western reformers over threw the penal catechism. An "art of un bearable sensations" gave way to "an economy of suspended rights." But Foucault argues that the real aim of the change was "not to punish less, but to punish better ... to insert the power to pun ish more deeply into the social body...
Emmylou Harris, country rock singer, describing the album she will make with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: "We will aim for some things people might not expect us to do. We will put it in the big Cuisinart and see what comes...