Word: aims
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Utility Rate Reform Carter wants the Government empowered to order utilities to change their pricing policies. The aim: to eliminate the practice of offering cheaper rates to major business users of power and make utilities charge less for "juice" consumed at night and during other off-periods. The Senate Energy Committee last week said no; it sees the proposal as an invasion of states' rights...
...smoking gun" tape (which caused Nixon's most devout Republican defenders on the House Judiciary Committee to recommend his impeachment) so garbled and murky as to be inconclusive. As Lasky sees it, if Nixon actually did get the CIA to impede the FBI's Watergate probe, his aim was not to keep investigators from linking the break-in to his re-election committee. Nixon tried to keep the burglars' cash from being traced, Lasky claims, solely because "it would have been embarrassing for major contributors who had been promised anonymity...
...there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however beneficial to the populace or nonpolitical the target might be. As elsewhere in Rhodesia, the guerrillas land-mine roads, rob stores, hijack buses and stage occasional ambushes. Their aim is to push the nationalist cause and to make the country ungovernable, and they seem to be succeeding...
...investigations Certainly the government [is going on a witch hunt]. And it is directed not only at me personally, but I think the main aim is to crush the Congress [Party]-that is, to crush anything that might be in opposition. Congress is the only opposition, and I come in personally because they think I might be able to mobilize the Congress. The government has been geared to doing only one thing for six months, with no governance at all of the whole country, and it does seem that they have come out with a mouse, haven't they...
...Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people who go to these films have to be sports fans, and jock-sniffers as a general rule aren't very concerned with internal meanings...