Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CTOC spokesmen say if it appears that the City Council is going to be voting to repeal rent control, the group will mobilize all contacts in protest. The CTOC's aim is to defeat the increase city-wide, and, failing that, landlord-by-landlord...
...come to the Pilbara, drawn by the region's immense iron ore reserves and the increasing global demand for the metal. For most miners, the aim is to make money quickly and get out. But in one community the situation is different. Shay Gap, a tiny (pop. 862), two-year-old town 120 miles inland from Port Hedland on the Indian Ocean, is proving that even the harshest environment can be tamed...
...Alaska Highway. They come in ancient station wagons, the kids frisking in back, the husband hunched over the wheel and the exhausted wife dozing fitfully in the front seat. They are the latest breed to head for Alaska with the burning desire to strike it rich. Their aim is to work on-or feed off-Alaska's vast oilfields and its great new pipeline. Many will never get jobs, but some who do will make $6,000 or more a month...
Garrity's aim is to bus enough students to ensure that the racial mixture at most Boston public schools conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized...
...been opposed to price agreements on two grounds: 1) like cartels, they often aim to keep prices artificially high; 2) they do not work anyway-supply and demand reality has usually overwhelmed the terms of the deals. But two models do exist...