Word: aims
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Course leaders aim to recruit approximately 160 scholars from prominent universities in Central and Eastern Europe and enroll them in existing executive education programs offered by consortium members...
Bush's campaign staff back in Washington, wowed by the display, was hit with the realization that Clinton and Gore are prepared to fight for every bit of schmaltzy turf this time around. They learned that Clinton was ready to take aim at the President in what promises to be a brutal fall campaign. One of the most powerful passages in Clinton's acceptance speech was this challenge: "And so I say, George Bush, if you won't use your power to help America, step aside. I will...
...Liberalism would be less depressing if it had a more attainable end," Kaus writes, "a goal short of money equality." So he wants liberal Democrats to embrace an aim that he calls civic equality. If government can't bring everyone into the middle class, let it expand the areas of life in which everyone, regardless of income, receives the same treatment. National health care, improved public schools, universal national service and government financing of nearly all election campaigns, which would freeze out special- interest money -- these are the unobjectionable components of Kaus' enlarged public sphere...
...Damir and ripped the carpet. On the ground floor, Sandra Makcic's bedroom was gutted by a shell a month ago, minutes after she left it. Said Ramisa Trtak, 70, who moved into the building after her house in an outlying quarter was obliterated: "During the World War they aimed at strategic targets. In this idiotic war they aim at civilians...
Even if the production does not aim to create the illusion of realism, too much declaiming instead of speaking makes the play sound forced and unnatural, as if the actors want to be really, really sure we get the message. Fortunately, this is less of a problem in the second...