Word: aims
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Picking its way through this snarl of conflicting interests would be a formidable task even for an American Administration that had evolved a forceful, consistent foreign policy. The Reagan Administration is far from that position of strength. In the Middle East, one key aim is to reassure the Saudis of American friendship; the primary method of doing that is pressing the sale of AWACS radar planes, and that deal is still in deep trouble in Congress. In the broader area of foreign policy, the Administration has blown hot and cold on dealing with the Soviet Union and is relying heavily...
Christened the International Style by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, it was taken up by the Museum of Modern Art, shed its "real" aim (which was to house workers in Utopian communities) and became the house style of American capitalism. Soon the land was covered with glass boxes erected in helpless middle-class submission to intellectual fashion. Nobody liked these buildings then. Nobody wants them now. From sea to shining Seagram, it was a big waste of time. But the legacy is permanent, because the International Style created "Compounds," an entrenched dictatorship over taste centered in the Eastern universities...
...offer brings Kuwait closer to a long-sought goal of diversifying its oil industry away from excessive dependence on production. The aim is to form a firm like one of the large multinational oil companies, which have investments in exploration, refining and marketing...
...when Open Doors was approached secretly by a house church leader, who urgently requested Old and New Testaments. Under the guidance of Open Doors President Anne van der Bijl, 53, staffers began raising money for the mission in the U.S. through dinners, direct mail and TV spots. The aim of the campaign was disclosed, but not the way the mission would be accomplished. Cost of the venture: $6 million, of which $3.5 million came from the U.S. and Canada and $2.5 million from abroad...
...study found that freshmen at black colleges had lower SAT verbal scores than the national freshman average (336 vs. 474). But black colleges point out that for many of their applicants it is not a case of which college they pick, but whether they can go at all. The aim of the colleges is to move students along so that, by graduation, they have caught up with the rest of the country. Says Tuskegee Dean Walter Sapp: "Yes, we create an atmosphere where a student can play catchup, but we also have people in graduate schools all around the nation...