Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee's main aim is "to alert the academic community to the situation of human rights and specifically to our responsibility to human rights in Poland," Tymienieckay added. Calling herself "nonpolitical." Tymienieckay said her concern about the Polish situation is that she is of Polish descent and her belief that the Poish crises "goes beyond any political concern. The issue at stake is the human rights of a nation to survive, to have a cultural identity...
Most of the acts are of a homier nature, however; their aim is to charm rather than amaze. Tarra the elephant plays a harmonica, hits a tambourine and dances atop a stool on two front feet; the Bertinis do figure eights and other intricate maneuvers on unicycles; and the two clowns turn out to be superb jugglers. One of the advantages of a small space-the single ring is only 42 ft. in diameter-is that the audience can become involved. At each show one of the clowns plucks children from their seats to lead the band. Though...
Bogart Jackson saw the Husband kneeling in the grass, motionless in deference to the golfers on the tee. He had always been polite. Bogart Jackson took aim, and brought his club back slowly, his eye on the ball...
...Engelmayer's argument is that these ideas will not "put a strike-out king on base." Indeed not, nor is any such thing ever claimed. Knowing the best process to aim for in a negotiation will improve your chance of achieving a satisfactory outcome, but it certainly cannot guarantee results. Neither can understanding the theory of calisthenics make you physically...
...began, last week, the grand finale of Operation Bright Star, a 45-day complex series of exercises involving 6,000 U.S. military personnel who worked with the armed forces of Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman. The aim of the maneuvers: to test the slowly evolving ability of the U.S. to carry out the vows of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to help the states in the oil-rich Persian Gulf area resist a Soviet-launched invasion...