Word: aims
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Finally, the plan discusses three urban design goals which aim to create a more positive image for Alewife. Alewife should connect to Cambridge, have a more cohesive and livable environment and create a sense of place...
...fire: Nixon-era Commerce Secretary Pete Peterson and two ex-Senators, Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, whose presidential campaign peaked on the eat-your-spinach message that everyone must sacrifice to bring the deficit down. Claiming 100,000 followers in 50 states, they aim to make it easier for politicians to make painful budget cuts by educating voters as to why they must grin and bear it. Or as Tsongas puts it: "Congress will do what is courageous when it is no longer courageous...
...Concord Coalition would aim for a much broader target. To reach a balanced budget by the year 2000, it would impose a strict means test on entitlements. Households would lose about 10% of their federal benefits of whatever kind for every $10,000 of income above $40,000, up to a maximum of 85% for those making $120,000 and up. The 58% of Americans whose incomes, including entitlements, range up to $40,000 would lose nothing. On the revenue side, the Concord plan calls for a 50 cents...
...Hall. In the thrust of his Churchillian jaw one can read a declaration of honorable purpose; in his blue eyes one can hear the quiet bark, feel the dogged bite. Stevens lives to serve his master and to rule the servants. Upstairs his step is tentative and his eyes aim for the carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender to no soft impulse when below. That is why Stevens was deaf...
...Administration-back ed contras used to stage attacks against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. By day Womack tends his southern Florida storm-shutter business. At night he hunkers down in an eight-bedroom yellow stucco house in South Miami with Francois' sister Elsie and her husband Charles Joseph. Their aim is to assist Haiti's military in presenting a "fresh face" to the world. Womack says he offers Haiti's rulers "a white man's thinking." Joseph has paid visits to the offices of Republican Senators Larry Pressler and Jesse Helms, as well as various Congressmen, to sell the idea...