Word: aims
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...large numbers of persons of different racial backgrounds live and work together, there will likely be misunderstandings, tensions, and conflicts. Al institutions should establish some agency whose programs and policies seek to improve racial understanding, to encourage persons of different racial backgrounds to interact around mutual interests with the aim of reducing racial hostilities. This is not the role that "Third World centers" (whatever they may be) have established for themselves. For a variety of reasons the Faculty and Administration of the University decided not to establish a "Third World center." It should be mentioned that in the past...
...fact, hopes that the Soviet Union, whose main aim seems to be to rebuild its weak diplomatic position in the Middle East, will act as a restraint on Syria. The Soviets, according to U.S. thinking, would have little to gain from an outbreak of fighting between Syria and Israel. They could again be embarrassed militarily, as they were last year when the Israelis shot down about 100 of Syria's Soviet-made jet fighters...
...months ago, the Soviet Union was no more than an irrelevant bystander in the Middle East poker game. But since then, Moscow has anted up with a vengeance by resupplying Syria with large quantities of highly sophisticated weapons. The Soviet aim has been not merely to replace equipment lost when Syria tried to blunt Israel's invasion of Lebanon last June, but to increase Soviet influence in the region by offering the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad more and better materiel than he had before. Moscow, moreover, has added a new dimension to its involvement in Syria...
...problems and encourage reform on a national scale, the Association of American Medical Colleges, which represents all 127 medical schools in the U.S. and all 16 in Canada, is conducting a threeyear, $1 million survey, the first sweeping examination of medical education in a half-century. The aim, says A.A.M.C. President John Cooper, is to determine "what is the education that all physicians need," and how to make the process less "brutal...
Certainly the best way to humanize doctors is to humanize their training. The common aim of all efforts to reform medical education is to allow students more time to absorb and reflect upon what they learn and more freedom to pursue personal interests. Says Dean John Sandson of Boston University: "If we want our students to be compassionate, we as faculty and administrators have to be compassionate...