Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for the normal gunslamming, Dirty Harry with a .44 magnum taking aim at the streets of San Francisco, you won't find it in Bronco Billy. What you will find is a hard luck story--with a plot as an excuse for satire...
...European Community's declaration about the Middle East: It is the joint aim for us and for the U.S. to work toward a permanent and just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. The Europeans are attempting to work toward this joint goal...
...Zimbabwe. South Africa has been pretty pragmatic about governments whose basic philosophy or even methodology it does not like, as in the case of Mozambique. That is true in Zimbabwe as well. The goal is to aim at the maximum possible cooperation, interchange, even interdependence, without getting involved with the differing political philosophies. There are some in South Africa who have been critical of even this approach-a diplomacy based on transport, food and energy. But I think the [goal of] interaction is generally accepted because South Africa obviously cannot exist in isolation...
Readers looking to rationalize that contradiction in terms of "open marriage" will not find support in this book. Schwartz is too good a writer to build characters out of trendy rhetoric and aggressive self-pity. Her aim is to show how two people in love can reveal each other's nature over a long period of time. They were, writes the author, "hammer and chisel to each other...
...differing shades of right-wing militancy have given rise to two main groups. Both originated with the Greater Israel Movement, formed in 1967 with the aim of annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank...