Word: aims
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More than a decade after it began, Cambridge's nationally touted controlled choice program has yielded both successes and failures. While the original aim of racial balance in Cambridge's public schools has been for the most part achieved, students, parents and administrators alike say that socioeconomic diversity remains the educational vision, as opposed to the reality...
Most people involved in the system seem to believe that the original aim, racial desegregation, has been achieved. But while colors may be mixed, economic distinctions blur less easily...
...many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials, already smarting under accusations of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, temporarily called off further convoys. There was nothing to dissuade them from their pessimism in the rejection by the Serb nationalist parliament in Bosnia of the Vance-Owen peace plan, approved not only by other factions but, conditionally, by their own leader...
...better of a panic-stricken populace. Desperate to escape the encircled city where 60,000 Muslims have been trapped by the Bosnian Serb offensive, they stormed the transports. At least four, probably more, died in the stampedes and harried U.N. officials, already accused of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, called off further convoys until new security measures could be put in place...
Contrary to the media's portrait of pro-life activists, many (though not all) of them are not motivated by hatred for women, nor is violence their aim. In fact, a commitment to non-violence is often the starting point for opposition to abortion. Instead of criminalizing or demonizing the pro-life position, one should endeavor to understand how these moral principles would make someone feel duty-bound to protect both mother and fetus by preventing the former from aborting the latter...