Word: aims
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Heymann, who will fill the second highest post in the Department of Justice, said yesterday he shares Attorney General Janet Reno's aim of improving the condition of young Americans, especially those in high-crime inner-city areas...
There is a solution -- at least for our first two patients. Instead of adding a new layer, like a Band-Aid on a gangrenous wound, the aim should be to simplify: eliminate the 1,500 private insurers (they can always go back to auto and life) and replace them with a Canadian-style "single payer," which could be the Federal Government, a quasi-public agency or each of the 50 states. In one fell swoop, health-care costs would be reduced by much of the $80 billion that now goes for "administrative overhead," producing savings that, according to the General...
...fatalistic humor and a desperate, fading hope that the center, wherever the hell it is, will hold just until the dawn breaks. Tough music's not in short supply just now, thanks to rap's street attitude, street come-ons, street aggression. Baerwald's songs, flinty and rock-rooted, aim higher. They are full of rage, melancholy and regret for fates that get mixed up and mangled in the course of everyday Armageddons...
...BOTTOM LINE: Filmmakers with sitcom sensibilities aim for sober truth and end up in gloomy muddle...
...politicians of both parties have felt it easier to buck the gun lobby -- especially since the NRA seldom budges from its never-give- an-inch credo. The New Jersey defeat came just three weeks after Virginia, an NRA stronghold, adopted a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases. The aim was to discourage bulk buyers who had turned the state into a firepower exporter to street criminals everywhere. "People recognize that this random gun violence is out of control," says Susan Whitmore, communications director of Handgun Control, a lobbying group. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have all adopted stronger...