Word: aims
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...lurching between confrontation and negotiation for 14 months. And as in other situations, the Administration has been unclear, possibly even to itself, on what its ultimate goal is. Should it try to keep North Korea from developing any nuclear weapons at all, as Clinton once insisted? Or should it aim only to keep Pyongyang from becoming a "significant" nuclear power, as Secretary of Defense William Perry later said -- which might imply that one or two A-bombs would be O.K.? The big danger is that having dodged one deadline after another for opening its nuclear facilities to inspection...
Which, in another sense, is I believe our mutual lacking in this "Age of Individual Separateness," and it is, I believe, the aim this film means to explore in all it tragedy, is all its limits, in all its violence: but also in that final bravery of its, admittedly somewhat still inchoate, hope. Jon King Harvard Dining Services Currier House
Although he is quick to point out that comparisons do not mean much, Roberts said that the Crimson's aim was to at least match the Tiger's time...
...puts her reforms in the service of progressive ideals rather than using them as cynical shield against white oppression. Recently she's been saying that her proposed system of cumulatitive voting "promotes a concept of racial group identity that is interest-based rather than biological." Guinier's proposed reforms aim to allow voters flexibility to "self-select their identities" and to vote with other voters who share the same interests, whether they are of the same race or not. Voters should be able to from "self-identified, voluntary constituencies that choose to combine because of like minds, not like bodies...
...aim would be by the end of the term and, ifpossible, sooner, but better correctly thanprecipitously," the president said in a telephoneinterview, his first since Green's departure wasannounced...