Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With these proposals, Moscow hopes to revive its dialogue with the West. Another aim of the "peace offensive" is to divide Washington from its allies. Last week's lengthy Warsaw Pact declaration, for example, spares the West European governments the criticism that is heaped on Washington...
Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said the program will train groups of interested sophomores to make presentations to members of the fresman class at the beginning of each school year. The presentations will aim at making students more aware that there is a crime problem in Cambridge and explain safety measures...
...What I came here for, you see...I have seen some things happen recently which have led me to question democracy, you know, American democracy. What aim does it serve? I have questioned everything as a result of what I have seen, and I have no answers. They are all give and take. Every answer seems to sacrifice something I don't want to lose. I might sacrifice morality, Hitler, for example, in defense of democracy. The will of the majority is not always right, and is many times wrong. I know it. In my bones, I know it, Hitler...
...What are you trifling with notions of morality, immorality?...Aim for greatness, and morality will fall into place. Democracy is a means, nothing more, my friend. A means. By using democracy, the strong man can overcome those weaker elements, can lead, can persuade people to make their nation strong and make it survive. From the depths of your soul, your dark soul, you must strive to be great, to survive, to stand over other men...and too, a nation must strive to do the same, it is the way of nature, the fittest survive, you see, like Nietzsche knew...
...Government. I.L.A. students meet two or three times a week, write short paragraphs on the same assigned topic, read them aloud, discuss possible improvements and then revise, often at greater length. The Bay Area Writing Project has spread from Berkeley, Calif., to 74 communities around the country. Its aim is to teach writing teachers how to teach writing. All sorts of methods are used, including the rewriting for clarity of long sentences by William Faulkner...