Word: aims
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...realize that the Reagan budget would be overwhelmingly defeated. Some Democratic members were hankering for a showdown, but O'Neill urged his party colleagues not to force the issue. "What are we going to do it for," he asked, "except to embarrass the President?" Jones denied that his aim was to embarrass anybody. "I'm just trying to break the logjam," he said, "and this may be the only way." Some Congressmen are prepared to do almost anything to force Reagan to give ground. They are beginning to realize that unless somebody blinks, there...
...those Americans not yet successful (the struggling, the underclass) are apt to aim at ease, not excellence: the confusion contaminates character and disables ambition...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and I met on July 1, 1974. We had been talking about extremes: either a permanent agreement that caused everyone to protect against every conceivable contingency, or a two-to three-year extension of the 1972 interim agreement, too short a period. Perhaps we should aim for a new agreement that would run for, say, ten years, from 1975 to 1985. Gromyko accepted and the negotiations were placed in a different framework. Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to meet during the winter to implement the new approach...
This week in Washington, D.C., the A.M.A. is holding a national meeting, where doctors, nutritionists and Government watchdogs are threshing out the practical details of labeling with representatives of the food-processing industry. The aim: to work out the best way to organize and expedite both sodium labeling and reduction of sodium in packaged foods. The keynote speaker will be one of the prime movers in antisalt politics, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes...
...artists of De Stijl wanted to submerge their personalities in the collective. "Although we differ individually," wrote Van Doesburg in 1919, "we all live for the same cause. We should concentrate solely on that. Then attention is automatically diverted from our own personality." The cultural aim of these reductions and renunciations? In four words: to change the world. To a very small extent, the Stijl group succeeded in this, since its theory of design helped banish ornament from all objects of everyday use, egg-cups to architecture...