Word: aims
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...military's aim in using the sayarot is to pinpoint Palestinian troublemakers and reduce contact and friction with the general population. Since the commandos went into large-scale action, the army has cut back routine patrols, maintained fewer outposts and limited the imposition of curfews in Palestinian towns and villages. Overall troop strength in the territories has been trimmed a third, from 10,000 soldiers to about...
Even as Republican speechmakers were taking aim at Clinton from the podium last week, aides were crisscrossing the sprawl of Houston to underscore their points over breakfast, lunch, coffee and cocktails with reporters. Meanwhile, Democratic fax machines were churning out rebuttals -- including a two-page reply to Bush's acceptance speech before he had even finished delivering it. As the volley of stats and cost estimates flying between both camps increases, the campaign is likely to be fought in four major policy arenas as well as on the "family values" front. The key lines of attack...
...fateful chain reaction, seismologists believe, started in April, when an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rattled the vicinity of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Monument. On a map, the fault that was then broken looks like a shotgun taking dead aim at Landers, and in fact it was. Two months later, a minor earthquake started on a fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop...
Sheetal N. Patel and Margaret D. Ledyard thing Hewitt underestimates. "Three-quarters," they agree. Two tanned students, grabbing their empty trays and heading for the trash cans, aim even higher. "Ninety percent," says one. His friend nods her head in agreement. "A hell...
...case, Havel's moral importance transcends Central European politics. His ideas aim toward formation of a kind of global civil society. The breakup of Czechoslovakia might be a sort of rehearsal for the problems involved in larger rearrangements of the world order. Havel asserts values not often advanced in world politics -- courtesy, good taste, intelligence, decency and, above all, responsibility. He asserted them against the Communist regime. , Anyone who thinks Havel's values are charming but useless in the real world must consider that the Communists are now gone...