Word: aims
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Without mentioning names, John Paul continued his tough tone by taking direct aim at liberal moral theologians like Father Charles Curran, who is fighting his ouster from the Catholic University of America. Theologians, the - Pontiff said, must be subject to church authority, and bishops should make clear that "dissent and confrontation" are not acceptable from church scholars. John Paul also urged the prelates to step up efforts to "safeguard and promote" doctrinal orthodoxy at church-affiliated colleges...
...corporate arena in which Japan's huge bankroll is prompting intense jitters is the U.S. financial-services industry. Tokyo's largest banks and investment firms, which already eclipse American companies like Citicorp (assets: $196 billion) and Merrill Lynch ($53 billion), openly aim to grab a large share of the U.S. financial marketplace. They have established a major beachhead in California, where four of the top ten banks are now Japanese owned: California First Bank, Sanwa Bank, Bank of California and Sumitomo Bank of California. On Wall Street, Japan's Sumitomo Bank shelled out $500 million for a 12.5% share...
...share of the $200 billion U.S. auto market (currently about 70%) and the growing use of foreign suppliers to cut costs. The companies are trying to save money by trimming their domestic labor force, and the U.A.W. has lost more than 400,000 members since 1979. The union's aim, Bieber says, is to make "stable domestic employment a part of how these companies do business...
...Cabinet last week agreed to sponsor a bill in Congress that would raise military salaries by 60%. Aquino also tried an old ploy: reaching for the halo of political sainthood. Playing on the meaning of corazon, she called herself the "heart of the republic" and said the rebels' aim "was clearly to kill the President and her family." Of Honasan's goals, she said, "Let not idealism be used to cover the darkest crimes and ambitions of men whose actions only show their hatred of democracy and their contempt for the lives of others...
India's press is among the freest in the world, but it did not seem that way last week. In the New Delhi editorial office of the Indian Express, the country's largest English-language daily, tax agents backed by police burst in and seized documents. The purported aim of their search: evidence of customs- duties violations...