Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs aim to address the problems of racism and ethnocentrism through "a multilevel approach," said Hernandez-Gravelle. To that end, the workshops are directed at individuals, institutions and communities, she said...
...halt to the savagery rests with the shura, or consultative council, that convened in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi last Friday. The 526-member council is composed of representatives from the seven- party mujahedin alliance that operates out of Pakistan and the eight mujahedin parties based in Iran. Their aim is to designate an interim - government that would supplant the Najibullah regime. But last week's meeting, attended by 420 delegates, gave little cause for optimism. The council's session lasted just 40 minutes, then disintegrated into chaos over the question of just how much power should be allocated...
When Ball founded A.C.T. in 1965, one aim was to combine a training academy for actors with a professional performing troupe that would also serve as teachers. A second was to provide a major new entrant to the then burgeoning regional-theater movement. Those goals were met: the conservatory today trains 70 actors in an academically accredited, three-year program, and the company won a 1979 Tony Award for regional excellence. But an equal concern for Ball, it seemed, was to ensure his own longevity, and that effort not only eventually doomed his tenure but nearly destroyed what...
...thing is triumphant," Sonbert said of the fragmentary elements of montage. Instead, a film's aim is to keep a "constant balance" between its scenes so that a marriage scene may be followed by a funeral. The audience may laugh when the image of a child appears on the screen, but the "laughter is a little bit qualified" by a following image of an ambulance or burning car, Sonbert said...
...ANOTHER aim of the shortened shopping period was to reduce the bureaucratic backlog at the registrar's office by getting all the paperwork done sooner so professors could present accurate class lists more quickly. The avalanche of change requests this year, however, demonstrated that this aspect of the plan an obvious failure...