Word: aims
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Three proposed bills designed with the laudable aim of relaxing the hated pass laws and giving urban blacks greater mobility in jobs and places of residence are so complex that they end by entrapping their would-be beneficiaries in a Catch-22 dilemma: no jobs without housing, no housing without a guaranteed...
...topical lotion. The first tests, with balding inmates at the state prison in Jackson, Mich., proved inconclusive. Further studies are being done at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and by the Orentreich Medical Group in New York City. Says Dr. Ron Rizer of the New York team: "The aim is to control skin absorption in order to limit the drug's systemic effects, while retaining the hair-growing properties...
...same time, Weinberger steered clear of committing himself to specific defense policies; for example, he refused to say whether he backed the proposed mobile MX missile system or favored abolishing draft registration. Weinberger did, however, also aim a blast at the outgoing Administration. Refusing to endorse the Carter doctrine that the U.S. would go to war to protect its vital interests in the Persian Gulf, he charged that Carter's failure to consult with allies before proclaiming the doctrine was "extraordinarily clumsy and ill-advised...
...risen quickly in the Soviet Army, took part in a seminar on the post-war tactics of the Communist Party. Although he still considered himself a loyal Bolshevik, he felt that some of the party's actions were incompatible with Communist ideology, and used the opportunity to aim masked criticism at Stalin. "I was clandestine and hoped I could get away with it," Uspensky says. "I said things which are now considered quite right, but then were rather premature." A week later, the party expelled...
...career that enabled him to live comfortably in Arlington; Va., with his wife Patricia and their seven children. But he provoked some bitter criticism for using his Government contacts to advance his private interests. One charge is that he passed along inside information to a Japanese businessman with the aim of developing lucrative contracts for himself. He received some $60,000 from fugitive Financier Robert Vesco as a "verbal consultant." Allen also introduced Vesco's attorney to William Casey, then Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, at a time when Vesco was under investigation by that agency. Allen claims...