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Word: aims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theses for students or to do work requiring the student's attention. These are the dangers which have brought down on the heads of the schools both criticism and apprehension, and it is the elimination of these dangers for once and for all at which the Student Council must aim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Lease for Private Tutoring | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...about an overvalued U.S. dollar that had led to a dismal American trade deficit. Baker reversed that stance with the September 1985 Plaza accord, a five-nation cooperative attempt to hasten the dollar's decline. Baker tried to use the dollar's continuing fall as a diplomatic tool. His aim: to chivy West Germany and Japan into expanding their domestic economies, while counting on the U.S. currency's drop in value to start reversing the ugly trade figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge for A Great Persuader | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...Angeles and was a mere eighth-round draft choice in 1980 because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound of it, the place had its charm. Davis, Darryl Strawberry of the Mets and Chris Brown of the Giants all took aim at the same high fence enclosing the 68th Street playground. They shot for 70th Street, and beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hailing The First Eric Davis | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...acting, at least in the conventional sense of the word. Performing is something that Beatty, whom Thomson calls a man "doubting and growing querulous . . . at the advisability of the whole pretense," must infrequently and reluctantly do in order to secure a larger, much more complex and devious aim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: They Got What They Wanted ISHTAR | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...like the Macintosh. So last week Apple announced plans to set up a well-financed, independent software company that could eventually rank among the industry's top five producers. The new concern will initially develop software only for Apple machines under an unspecified non-Apple name. The company will aim in part to seek out hot new ideas from small-time independent programmers who lack the resources to market their products. So, just like Apple's first computer, the next software breakthrough may be discovered in somebody's garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Software Plays Hardball | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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