Word: aims
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...rejiggering of freight rates by the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower the cost of shipping steel by railroad. The aim is to enable steel produced in the Midwest to compete more efficiently with foreign steel, much of which is sold in coastal areas close to ports of entry...
...light of these conflicts, the FSLN moved last September to adjust its strategy to the new political conjuncture and with an aim to toppling the dictatorship. Last month's offensive corresponded to what the FSLN designated the "last phase of the revolutionary war" against Somoza, as opposed to the old strategy, favored by the more left-wing militants, emphasizing long term work in the countryside and the establishment of socialism through military struggle...
Wellhead tax The central feature of the Administration program, the tax would be phased in over three years and raise domestic crude-oil prices, now at an average $8.52 per bbl., to the current OPEC price of about $13.50 per bbl. The aim: to discourage domestic oil consumption. To encourage increased domestic production and reduce imports, the plan would allow the price of newly discovered oil to rise to the 1977 OPEC level, and the oil companies to retain the increased revenue. To lessen the draining effect of the wellhead tax on consumer spending power Carter proposed that much...
...following the defeat of the two Boer republics and the formation of the Union of South Africa under British rule. Since then, the organization has grown to a membership of more than 10,000 in nearly 700 divisions across South Africa and in Rhodesia as well. Although its initial aim was to promote Afrikaans language, history, culture and education, the Broederbond was soon involved in creating financial, banking and business institutions as a way of mobilizing the meager financial resources of the downtrodden Afrikaners. Today some of these firms-notably Volkskas, Sanlam and Federale Volksbeleggings-are financial giants...
...ALISON," as in "I'm Not Angry" and throughout My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello anticipates our reactions and responds by ringing changes on them. Comparisons are inevitable--to Presley, from whom he took his name; to Springsteen, and Mick Jagger, and Graham Parker, like all of whom he sounds; to the r&b revivalists, of whom he is certainly one; to the punks, of whom he is not. The comparisons will be made, but they will be unfair. They'll be easy handles for people who will be scared away by outward appearances and won't recognize this album...