Word: aims
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...time of limited resources, many institutions believe that future success depends upon attracting not just ordinary students but the finest. Admits Helen Horowitz, a public relations official at New York University, which is handing out 55 new merit scholarships of $2,000 this year: "Part of the aim is that talented students will help make N.Y.U. attractive to others in the years to come...
...interesting or useful was Director Francis Cullinan's decision to cast a man, Bill Murphy, as the overbearing Lady Bracknell, Algernon's audacious and obnoxious aunt. If the aim was for some unusual dramatic effect, by the play's end this effect dissipates as Murphy becomes sufficiently convincing as a woman...
...modules will aim to equip students for the interim until they reach the higher management positions. Students estimate that the half course will evolve into the module within the next three years...
...beginning of his latest talks with Hussein, Arafat described the political difficulties he faces, not only from P.L.O. hard-liners but from a number of Arab states as well. Hussein then asked Arafat if he would endorse Jordanian participation in U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations, whose aim would be to establish a future relationship between Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat replied that he could not give the King a mandate to speak for the Palestinians. Arafat reportedly also put aside the idea of authorizing certain Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. to participate in future negotiations. When...
Driefontein is a microcosm of the problems caused by the country's attempt to segregate blacks and whites. Drafted in 1959, South Africa's program of "separate development" calls for gradually ejecting the blacks from their communities and transferring their citizenship to various remote homelands. The aim is to ensure that South Africa's 5 million whites artificially become the majority in the country. The plan will also put an end to arguments for giving the country's 21 million blacks representation in Parliament, a right that they have always been denied under South Africa...