Word: aims
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...climactic moment. Since late last year, the canny Vice Premier, who has survived numerous upheavals in and out of power for the past 30 years, has been bringing to the central government a team of tested provincial leaders, most of them in their early 60s. Deng's aim is to see power firmly placed in the hands of trusted associates who will carry out the ambitious modernization programs he has charted for the nation...
...Israelis, who have been actively backing the Christian militias in Beirut with arms and training since the start of the civil war, apparently aim to keep the country divided and neutralized. Through a surrogate force headed by a maverick Christian officer, Saad Haddad, the Israelis also effectively control a buffer zone just inside Lebanon's southern border...
...prison work is as lucrative as Dan Morgan's in Stillwater. Colorado pays its inmates up to $3.04 an hour, but a few states like Texas pay nothing, and the national average is a modest 20? to 30? an hour. Whatever their outlay, the states aim for a good return. It costs about $10,000 to house the average prisoner for a year, and with inmate population expanding and taxpayers' tolerance shrinking, legislators are loath to spend any more than they absolutely must to keep their penal systems going. Thus it is a boon when a state...
Especially so, perhaps, because Carter's acceptance speech Thursday night succeeded, to the extent it did, primarily as a get-them-scared-of-Ronnie exercise. It failed, painfully, to achieve what the President's own staff had said would be its equally essential aim: communicating to all of America a vision of his goals that would lead and inspire the nation. While painting, in broad, strokes rich with hyperbole, a gloomy picture of a Reaganite America, Carter described the Democratic promised land only in vague?or at times excessively technical ?platitudes. Not even the delegates who had nominated...
Delfim's aim is to more than double Brazilian exports to $40 billion or so by 1984. With West German help, for example, he intends to turn Brazil into an exporter of such high-technology items as nuclear reactors. Unfortunately, most of Brazil's industry is so tightly controlled by an oppressive bureaucracy that it generally lacks the entrepreneurial spark to compete effectively in world markets...