Word: aims
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...virus can fuse itself to the cell, gain entry and thereby cause trouble," Wiley said. His aim is to modify viruses to prevent the initial fusion, he explained, demonstrating with a 5-ft. molecular model...
...Astronomy and cosmology is an area where there are not a lot of facts, but the aim is to reduce the amount of speculation through scientific investigations," said Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70. Telescopes and spectrography enable scientists to determine changing intergalactic distances and measure the dimensions of the universe, he said...
...most discomfiting fashion revelation for first-time Lauren buyers may be his lofty prices: $67.50 for basic oxford-cloth shirts, $130 for terry-cloth bathrobes and $338 for cashmere sweaters. One aim of that upscale pricing strategy is to maintain consumer prestige. Cagey shoppers can pick up Lauren's seconds and overstocks for 30% to 70% discounts at his factory-outlet stores, which are situated in such discreet locales as Appleton, Wis., and Tijuana...
...bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from garden gnome to Marcus Aurelius, you knew where you were...
...real aim of the U.S.F.L. owners may have been not to beat their N.F.L. rivals but to join them. At the very least, figured some U.S.F.L. owners, the older league might be persuaded to take in the most prosperous franchises or even agree to a merger that would sweep in the whole U.S.F.L. There was precedent, after all: the N.F.L. in 1950 absorbed the best teams in the fledgling All-America Football Conference and then in 1966 merged outright with the arrivistes of the American Football League...