Word: aims
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...Alliance for Life, a student anti-abortion organization, is taking aim at University Health Services (UHS) for its policy of funding abortions...
...aim of a clinic defense is to prevent a clinic from being blocked and to conduct women into the building, said Eileen M. Roche, a member of NOW's media committee...
...moved boldly under Roger B. Smith, chairman in the 1980s, but often in the wrong direction. Smith's stated aim was to gear up the company for the 21st century. Along the way, GM spent $70 billion on everything from industrial robots to the purchase of Hughes Aircraft and Perot's Electronic Data Systems. But despite the spending spree, GM's market share fell from 46% to 35% during the decade as consumers turned away from its unattractive products. Nor did GM have much success in transferring Hughes' electronic wizardry to auto assembly lines, or in using EDS to standardize...
Faludi, currently a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, has started research for a second book which deals with the topic of masculinity. Faludi will aim the as yet untitled new book, which is due for publication in two and a half years, at finding the roots of the counterattack identified in Backlash...
Smith's handpicked group of bureaucracy busters, who work 15-hour days and call themselves "the cowboys," aim to liberate each of GM's brand-name divisions to give them back their long-stifled control over styling, engineering and marketing decisions. Each division, from Cadillac to Chevrolet, will be expected to survive virtually on its own. Already, the layers of approval required for manufacturing decisions have been reduced by half. Individual engineering components that fail to add style or identity to a product have been dramatically reduced: 17 different ignition systems have been refined to three, nine engine families...