Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This blend of The Great Escape (with Sylvester Stallone in Steve McQueen's old role as the prisoner obsessed with getting out) and Rocky (with the whole team playing Stallone's old role) has but one aim: to convert a movie audience-typically composed of individuals lost in private fantasies-into a sports crowd, in which singular preoccupations are submerged in communal joy as the home team is cheered on to a transcendence everyone shares. With Pelé doing wondrous tricks on field, and Bill Conti's huge score blasting away underneath John Huston's superb...
...still has some technical problems, veteran tankers who have driven it say it is a superb machine, better than anything the Soviets can field. The M-l can whip around battlefields at 45 m.p.h., fire accurately on the run while other tanks have to slow down to aim their guns, and can survive a series of direct hits by antitank missiles...
...Senate voted to tie tax brackets to the rate of inflation, beginning in 1985. Reagan opposed including that in this bill mainly because of the loss to the Treasury: some $12.6 billion in 1985. The Senate aim is to avoid bracket creep, in which inflation edges taxpayers into a higher tax rate though they do not gain in buying power. Both chambers seem to agree that the estate tax should be nearly wiped out. They would raise the value of estates that can be passed to an heir tax-free from $175,625 to $600,000. Only...
...subjects fit for heated debate. The Europeans charge that a soaring American dollar is worsening inflation and unemployment in their countries. At the same time, the U.S. wants the other nations to be far more cautious in trading with the Soviet Union. But diplomats have pretty well decided to aim not for detailed agreements on specific questions but for general expressions of a desire to cooperate...
...Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" (or "Mad Mothers," as they are called by some cynical Argentines) are engaged in a mute contest of wills. Their aim: to discover the whereabouts of their kin, among the 6,000 to 24,000 Argentines who disappeared during the fierce war against terrorism waged by the military after it took power from the country's hapless Perónist government in March...