Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aim was to investigate charges of corruption in the U.S. sugar-import quo tas. Presumably, John Kennedy knew of all these actions...
Quite Economical. The basic concept of the shuttle has changed little since the $5.25 billion project was approved by President Nixon in 1972. The plan calls for five airplane-like orbiters that can fly up to 100 missions without major overhaul, and the aim is to mount some 60 missions a year. The first of the 122-ft.-long, delta-winged ships now being assembled at Rockwell International in Palmdale, Calif., is about the size of a conventional DC-9 passenger jet, but double the weight. It will lift a pay load of 65,000 Ibs. in a cavernous cargo...
...worthy but familiar: they offer much detail but tell us little that is new. However, a show of a different kind opened last week at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It contains no works of American art. Its title is "The European Vision of America," and its aim is to emulate Tocqueville: "To tell us," the catalogue announces, "what Europeans saw here and what they felt and thought about matters which, traditionally, have been the preserve of American opinion...
...proposed changes, which now await approval from the Faculty Council and Dean Rosovsky, would affect both present and future concentrators. Basically, they aim to provide relief to an honors program which is presently facing a financial squeeze...
...places of his travels. The settings of these stories, unlike present-day America, are places where the past is intricately woven into the present--Helprin's range includes France, Russia, Israel, Italy, and Jamaica--and they provide both a framework and a source of inspiration for his overriding aim: to uncover the link between, the modern short story and the oral tale of long ago. This book, his first collection of short stories, is his attempt to give to the written form of the story--a finite, completed form, not open to change--the feeling of a story which...