Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked if too much was being spent on "welfare," 32% said yes. Yet the same poll showed strong support for positive, rather than punitive, reforms. Ninety-three percent said the main goal of such efforts should be to make people self-sufficient; only 3% cited cost cutting as the aim...
...what might have been. He blames the August coup attempt for making any efforts to overhaul the Communist Party and introduce a more measured program of market reforms "impossible." The putsch certainly accelerated the breakup of the Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev suggests, that he might have succeeded in his second...
Clark's hiring of the infamous "five white men" resulted from a process of careful negotiation whose aim was to create a truce between the conservatives and the liberals on the Law School faculty...
Chasing a man they suspected had stolen a pair of boots, the G-men stumbled into an AIM camp and, perhaps understandably, a fire fight broke out, at the end of which the agents were dead. Three AIM members were charged with their murder. Two were acquitted, but Leonard Peltier, who was tried separately, was convicted on the basis of evidence the film insists -- quite convincingly -- was trumped up. He continues to serve double life sentences...
Thunderheart, with no obligation to sift through the intricate facts of a complicated case, has more time than the documentary to portray the shameful living conditions at Pine Ridge and to suggest the power of the mystical traditions AIM sought to revive. Its protagonist, an FBI agent named Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer), is assigned to the reservation mainly for public relations reasons; he's one-quarter Sioux. And not proud of it. But the squalor of Pine Ridge touches him, as do the Native Americans, led by a tough, funny tribal policeman (Graham Greene) and a sly, funny shaman (Chief...