Word: aims
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Perhaps because the Administration realized that prospects were nil for a diplomatic breakthrough, the White House had originally scheduled just 30 minutes of private policy conversation between Reagan and Mubarak. But that short shrift ran counter to the Administration's aim, which was, as a U.S. official explained, "to establish a personal relationship" between Reagan and Mubarak, and the meetings were lengthened to one hour...
What remains important, as we remember the genocide of a decade ago, is the questions it forces. Why did it have to happen? Why with our government's support? The Nixon-Kissinger sideshow has achieved its aim--camaraderie with China and her people, cultural and scientific exchanges, and the opportunity to arm her to threaten the Soviet Union. A significant gain, perhaps, and cheap at the price of watching as many as three million people dye. Who wouldn't want to forget...
...most ardent supporters, that he had produced a plan that would achieve those goals. Some skeptics, most of them Democrats taking a sharply partisan view, even charged that Reagan's real motives were not as altruistic as those he set forth. They claimed that the President's aim was to rid Washington of its most troublesome domestic programs, fobbing them off on the states in the expectation that many would soon die there. Some suggested that he was trying especially to get the problems of the poor off Washington's back...
Tying arms control to Soviet acts: a noble aim that often fails...
...aim of the program is to teach talented high school students certain areas of mathematics which they might not otherwise encounter untillate in college. The atmosphere, more like camp than summer school, encourages cooperation, rather than competition, among students. There are no tests, and students work together to solve problems, instead of simply being taught the formula and proofs. In addition to the academics, alumni remember Hampshire for Frisbee, volleyball. Monty Python, juggling, 3 a.m. fire drills, and "vast silliness...