Word: aims
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...successful has Carter's human rights policy been? If its aim is to burnish the U.S. image abroad, the policy has been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
...evolutionary terms, sex is the central game in life, and the aim of all players is to get as many genes as possible into the next generation, at the lowest cost. Some of the best low-cost players are female fish, which deposit their unfertilized eggs in front of a chosen male. Then, while he is inseminating the eggs, they flee, leaving the poor male to protect his genetic investment by nurturing the young himself...
...moral matters, few politicians match the fervor of Cleveland's three-term Republican mayor, Ralph J. Perk, 63. Last month he had 70 city sanitation workers deliver questionnaires on pornography to 260,000 local households. Hizzoner's avowed aim: to establish a community standard on obscenity, in line with the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the need for local criteria for jury decisions in obscenity cases...
...vesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers, who fear that their language and culture are gradually being overwhelmed on their home ground by English. Thus Lévesque has embarked on a drastic program to legislate the language of everyday life in Quebec - meaning parlez...
...proposed language law has outraged the 1.2 million non-French Quebeckers, most of whom are English-speaking. Trudeau's government sympathizes with Lévesque's aim of preserving French, but fears that the bill is only a first step toward the Premier's avowed goal of separating Quebec from the other nine Canadian provinces...