Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost 200 people have been killed in the Muslim fundamentalists' campaign against the government. The targets for their bullets and bombs have shifted from Muslim opinion leaders who frown on fundamentalism to Christian Copts, foreign tourists and police officers. No matter whom they shoot at, their long-term aim remains constant: to topple Mubarak and install a purely Islamic anti-Western government, complete with such harsh traditional punishments as beheading and limb amputation...
...White took aim yet again, Black crossed the room and wrapped her right arm around White. "I figured if she could feel my body, maybe she wouldn't kill me," Black recalls. Tightening the hug, Black placed her left hand over the gun and began a soothing patter. "You're in pain. I understand, and we can work it out." After five, maybe 10 minutes, White told Black she would give her the gun. Only after police handcuffed White did Black break down in sobs. "I don't know why the hell I did what I did," Black says...
...metal file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear the room," he says. Returning the gun to the canvas bag, he hurried back to his room, paused briefly to consider a hiding place, and then slid the weapon under his mattress before joining his parents for dinner...
...after President Clinton publicly urged it to do so, Germany's Bundesbank cut key interest rates. That could help stimulate the inert German economy, a U.S. aim...
...waited for Perot to appear were the latest weird scene in the marriage of convenience between the Dallas billionaire and the G.O.P. The alliance is an uneasy one. Many senior Republicans are worried that Perot's advocacy group, United We Stand America, is a powerful weapon that he may aim at them whenever it suits his purpose. Dole has warned associates that the mercurial independent is a threat to the G.O.P.'s status as the focus of opposition to Clinton. William Bennett, like Dole a possible presidential candidate in 1996, says, "It's a big mistake for Republicans to legitimize...