Word: aims
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...Harvard Foundation conducts a yearlong series of programs with the aim of improving racial understanding and encouraging positive relationships among students of different races and ethnicities on our campus. As with other University offices, we do the best we can in this sometimes difficult but very important undertaking. By most accounts, we at the Harvard Foundation have had a successful year in race relations. In this office of three staff members and ten part-time students, we remain dedicated to the task of creating an atmosphere of interracial camaraderie and one in which Harvard's ethnic diversity is appreciated...
...Khmer Rouge take aim at the first free vote in decades...
...goals. Eager to hold down costs, Hillary, Magaziner and allies have been talking about broadening the plan still further, to encompass health payments for auto-accident and workplace injuries and to have people stay enrolled in the program rather than switch to Medicare as they turn 65. The aim would be to reduce costs by avoiding duplication. But even if that happened, the government would have to find a way of capturing from patients and insurance companies the money saved, so that it could finance extension of coverage to the uninsured and underinsured. A simple way of holding down costs...
...white farmers and the government's failure to increase the price of corn. It also provided a rousing springboard for the so-called Committee of Generals, who the next day formally launched the Afrikaner Volksfront, a bid to unite more than 20 political, cultural and worker groups. The aim, says General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald: to win an Afrikaner state containing roughly 16% of South African territory, if necessary by acts of civil disobedience or force of arms. Says Groenewald: "What we will contemplate . . . is to declare our independence and secede." Despite the threat, negotiators agreed that by June a date...
...decided to try to exempt the Bosnian government from the embargo, and hoped that might push the sides toward a cease-fire and negotiations. Meanwhile the U.S. would use air attacks to keep the Serbs from grabbing all that remained of Bosnia while the Muslims were rearming. That would aim air power at a clear goal for a limited time and not just be an "act of lashing...