Word: aims
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...businessman, who was strict with his children and devoted to community mores, including racial segregation. But Carter's mother was something else: one of those doughty and durable women that the South produces among both races. It was "Miss Lillian" (pronounced locally Lee-yun) who taught her son to aim for something higher than what Plains could offer. A registered nurse, she supported the family during the Depression when farm prices plummeted. Instead of letting her children talk at mealtimes, she urged them to read at the table. She treated blacks with no less compassion than whites. She nursed them...
Though Riccardo is confident that Chrysler has turned the corner, he is making only modest predictions about the future-and with good reason: Chrysler has long been a boom-and-bust company, and bankruptcy talk has been around before. Says the chairman: "The aim of this management group is to put ourselves in the kind of financial, operating and marketing shape so that as the industry goes through these cyclical fluctuations, we will be relatively no worse off than anyone else." For the industry, he foresees a return to 1973's record level of car sales (11.5 million...
When Yntema and Fullerton departed, the Crimson lost an unhealthy chunk of its first-place potential, and so Harvard will have to aim for a swarm of second through sixth place finishes. While the top 12 finishers collect points, there is a four-point gap between sixth and seventh...
Equal access, one of the more salient issues in the admissions world, finds support in the committee, as does the admissions committee's basic premise that a diverse class is its ultimate aim. The group seems to be at a standstill presently, agreeing on the broad concepts and still too unaware of the admissions process to offer specific suggestions. As one committee member describes the situation, "We're just talking in shades of grey...
Beyond the immediate objectives of the hookers' union are some long-range attitudinal and political goals. COYOTE's ultimate aim is the decriminalization of prostitution--not its legalization. The existing laws which make prostitution a crime do not deter a prostitute from plying her trade; instead, they engulf the hooker in a dangerous, de-humanizing trap which ensnares her more deeply in crime. Illegality creates the necessity for pimps and opens the arena to organized crime...