Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a controversy recently because there was an ordinance that had as its aim to integrate the krewes[New Orleans social organizations]. The old line krewes were not integrated," Bryan said...
Wilson says Radcliffe's aim is "to transformsociety so that society will value women andaccommodate them...
...Studies program that borrows offerings from other departments and relies on a centralized tutorial program, like those in Social Studies, History and Literature, or History and Science, to put things in an "ethnic perspective?" The truth is that the idea of Ethnic Studies is much more ambitious than the aim of, say, Social Studies, which justifies itself on the grounds that economics, government, and sociology are best understood as overlapping disciplines that inform each other in important ways. Ethnic Studies, by contrast, makes the claim that "race" or "ethnicity" informs all humanistic--and for some proponents, scientific--disciplines...
...Bush, the aim was more than a last-minute potshot at his most intransigent rival. He wanted to send a message to Saddam that even though he is about to leave office, the Gulf War coalition remains firm in its demand that Iraq comply with U.N. resolutions. Given the military options available, the restraint of the operation shows the pains Bush took to ensure that his key allies, Britain and France, would sign on and to engage the support of the entire U.N. Security Council. By not overreacting to an escalating series of provocations by Saddam, the Western leaders reassured...
...audiences beyond his borders, the aim is to shatter the Gulf War coalition, weaken resolve at the U.N. and transform the U.S. into the bully. "He may sense that the unity of the sanctions regime is starting to fray," says a State Department official. "The Russians have lots of things at home on their minds, and the Europeans have the Balkans." Saddam wants to ease the constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats...