Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, Bok protests that divestiture would aim right at the heart of education. If Harvard divests it might lose money and be forced to cut back on education funds...
Total divestment is unwise, first of all, because it is ineffective. The aim of divestment is to force American companies to leave South Africa in the hope that their departure will administer a shock to the economy that will force the Botha regime to leave office or dismantle apartheid. This strategy breaks down for several reasons. To begin with, in the unlikely event that American firms did withdraw as a result of divestment, the result is not likely to cause apartheid to disappear. Instead, the departure of these firms might simply cause black unemployment without forcing the Afrikaner regime...
Hershbach's aim is not to chalk up another point for science, but rather to debunk the myth that science and the social concerns of the humanities are "two cultures" radically opposed to each other...
While the Saudis have threatened before to boost output, the kingdom's aim on those occasions was to scare the other twelve OPEC members into restraining their production. Now experts believe that the Saudis could be planning a serious effort to boost their income in order to narrow the country's budget deficit, which for 1983 and 1984 totaled $22 billion...
...season, NBC introduced nine series, all of which were canceled. Worse, most of the shows were about as sophisticated as a mud- trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling...