Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows a kneeling Strang in his room, a makeshift harness with reins attached to his head, beating his right thigh with a stick that passes for a riding crop, as his appalled father looks on. Ultimately, the treatment of these segments may certainly seem gratuitous, but Lumet did not aim at merely shocking his viewer. Rather, he tries to underscore the intensity of his protagonist's monomania...
...service; but because of the job reductions, union members are working fewer hours, with fewer benefits. Of Local 35's 1400 members, over 600 are now part-time workers who, without a full-time stake in the union, are less likely to support its demands. Although the university's aim may be simply to save money, the result is union-busting...
Flink described the review as "a number of fiscal actions encompassing a whole range of cutbacks. By tightening our overall operation we aim to achieve a balanced budget without diminishing the quality of education. This includes, most importantly, the management of our physical plant and use of energy...
...opposition only has ten, to start its second team when asked politely, and to play its goalie at striker and its center-half in the goal to avoid running up the score, what greater lengths can it go to? C'mon now, asking it to turn around and take aim at its won net is going a little...
...hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament? But to digress to a discussion of the double standard of morality where Israel is concerned is not my aim here...