Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than now with the hard-line religious parties that would have to guarantee his majority in the Knesset. But the Reagan Administration also views Israel as a strategic asset, as Secretary of State Alexander Haig puts it, in forming a bulwark in the Middle East against Soviet influence, an aim that concerns the Administration more than reviving the Camp David talks about Palestinian autonomy. Administration officials believe that Peres would be easier to deal with, but nonetheless respect Begin for his forthright stands. As part of its plan to strengthen Israel, no matter who won the election, the Administration late...
...said that U.S. authorities had given him a document that supported his suspicions that Iraq was indeed planning to build a bomb. In fact, the document, although raising concerns about Iraq's ultimate intentions, stopped far short of what Begin claimed. Admitted a highly placed Israeli source: "The aim of the paper was to play down the possible danger of the reactor...
...Socialists' far-reaching campaign promises. Two weeks ago, he held his first meeting with France's largest employers' association to discuss a 35-hour work week. Mauroy promised the worried businessmen that "the shorter week must not entail an increase in production costs." One Socialist aim is eventually to integrate private schools into the public system. But Mauroy asserts: "There will be no state monopoly in education. We will have an open dialogue with private schools, and they will be free to reject our proposals. There will be no plundering." He has adopted the same conciliatory attitude...
...questions plague the management. What if people finally stop driving to Florida? Or stop driving altogether? "People are still going to go on vacation," Holliday insists. He adds, though, that some changes are in the works: "Our chief aim is to change the face of South of the Border, to make it more of a destination than a stopover." Some families have been coming here for 20 years, and Mr. Schafer, presumably would like to see more. "We intend to upgrade the amusements, get something to hold people longer," Holliday says...
...growing vogue in Paris at the time was for occult imagery, Rosicrucianism, superstition, nuance-anything but the aim of pointillism, which was to state and quantify visual sensation as "objectively" as possible...