Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of Clinton's advisers are urging him to re-evaluate the health-care- reform package that he promised to unveil as one of his first major initiatives. To cope with the price inflation, Clinton must decide how he can reconcile his aim of expanding coverage while curbing costs. Any plan that could achieve both of those goals, however admirable, would require many Americans to pay more for care, give up benefits -- or both. "Any reform will create millions of winners and millions of losers. Health care is the most emotional and personal of all public policy issues," says John...
Over the coming decade, Alcock and others believe, this collective ignorance may at last be dispelled. Small bands of determined researchers are embarking on elaborate hunts for the hidden side of the cosmos. Some, using telescopes, are taking aim at the dark halo that rings our galaxy, searching for large, dim objects like burned-out stars. Others are positioning electronic detectors in underground tunnels, hoping to entrap phantom particles that may be so prevalent that they drench the universe like invisible drops of rain. "Someday soon," predicts University of Chicago astrophysicist David Schramm, "one of these groups is going...
...Star Trek episode. Suppose you turn on L.A. Law late, and you want to know what's going on. Merely push a button, and a bubble will appear explaining the plot. Push another, and it will even tell you the brand of Michael Tucker's suit. "My aim was to move the technology so far forward that there would be no debate about its worth," he says...
...wolf. A majestic symbol of the wild and a victim of man's relentless efforts to eradicate what he cannot control, the wolf is the very embodiment of our conflict with nature. In the skies over Alaska, when the rifle barrels slide out the helicopter windows and take aim at the first frightened wolves below, mankind will once again demonstrate its awesome power, and yes, its ignorance as well...
...this most crucial point in the development of the new South Africa, the United States should look to reshape its foreign policy to address the exigencies of the current state of affairs. "Get-real" measures are necessary, not "get-tough" policies. Their aim should be to encourage a transformation instead of merely a reformation within South African government...