Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With an aim of increasing awareness about homosexuality in the Jewish community, a group of Jewish students has founded a group to discuss issues of Judaism, religious community and sexual orientation...
...takes aim -- yes, again -- at bureaucratic bloat and red tape...
...takes aim -- yes, again -- at bureaucratic bloat and red tape...
...bias suit takes aim at the peak of corporate power...
...When Late Night with David Letterman made its debut on NBC in 1982, it was the prankish outsider, a subversive send-up of talk shows, television, the entertainment world in general. Letterman refused to fawn over guests; with the help of Vegas-obsessed bandleader Paul Shaffer, he took deadpan aim at show-biz phoniness. He griped about his NBC bosses, turned stagehands into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting inventiveness was influenced by Ernie Kovacs, his man-on-the- street playfulness by Steve Allen. But Letterman seasoned them with his own sardonic, cranky, cooler-than-cool...