Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alfonsin's latest headaches began on Oct. 22, when he ordered the arrests of six military officers and six civilians on charges of right-wing subversion. The men, he claimed, acted "with a common aim of violence against democratic institutions and the people." What resulted was the spectacle of a revolving prison door. Before all twelve suspects could be rounded up, a judge pronounced the arrests unconstitutional and ordered the release of those who had been detained. Alfonsin replied by proclaiming a state of siege, suspending for 60 days all constitutional guarantees against arbitrary arrest. Again several of the suspects...
...aim of the new Assertiveness Training Group, said group councilor Deborah Pilgrim, is to build confidence in students who have difficulty in communicating with others...
...Crimson defense, however, is a different story. The swarming corps of linemen--led by senior K.C. Smith--together with hard-hitting linebackers Scott Collins and Captain Brent Wilkinson, will aim to contain Brown's Jamiebacks: tiny tailbacks Jamie Potkul (422 yards) and Jamie Simone (205 yards...
...RARE TO FIND two separate student initiatives at Harvard taking aim at the same target, making virtually the same statement at almost the same time, and making a great deal of sense, all at once. But it's not so rare to find little student response...
With terrestrials like Carl Sagan, who needs extras? Five years ago, he brought the cosmos into your living room and became an instant star in the electronic firmament. The astronomer at Cornell now takes aim at the fiction best-seller charts. Contact, his first novel, dramatizes a pet theme: the possibility of unearthly life in the universe. Despite dialogue like "Holy Toledo. That's hundreds of janskys," the book is an engaging pastiche of science and speculation...