Word: aims
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...with its European allies should turn out to be El Salvador." Yet they seemed uniformly impressed by the evidence and grateful to the Reagan Administration for consulting with them. "We are now inclined to believe that arms of a certain precise origin are being used with the aim of destabilizing El Salvador," admitted a French official last week...
Warsaw's leaders must now convince their Soviet-bloc allies that they have not bought labor peace at the expense of the party's power monopoly. That was the apparent aim of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania's surprise visits to Prague and East Berlin last week. Party Bosses Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia and Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain...
...cannot continue to hold their own without the organized support of the local population. Accordingly, since last year they have assigned troopers to civilian duties, ranging from teaching to livestock breeding. And they have mounted a strong effort to recruit local cadre men for military and paramilitary operations. The aim: a Pretoria-controlled South West Africa Territory Force of seven "ethnic" battalions, each comprising 800 to 1,000 indigenous recruits. At least four such outfits already exist...
...change the form and timing of the general exams," she said, adding that the committee's aim is to "streamline the whole graduate process...
Tomlin and Wagner have no such grand ideas. They aim only to poke fun at the American houseperson's conspicuous consumption - a bizarrely anachronistic target in the '80s, when every Jane Doe scrutinizes her biodegradable cereal box to make sure it has enough vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this...