Word: aims
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...carving the lamb with replicated stone toolsLieberman said, students aim to reenactpaleolithic customs of stone-age communities...
Rudenstine also said he faces the challenge ofachieving a consensus in as large and scattered aninstitution as Harvard. He has begun a series ofmeetings with student groups, faculty andadministrators, attending some of them himself,with an aim to establishing "concrete steps" toimprove Harvard tense race relations...
...open up to the outside world. They have tried to forge a policy of "public consensus" in their ethnically diverse states, presiding over what can best be described as "nonparty" systems made up of shifting groups of democrats, nationalists, environmentalists and Old Guard communists. Akayev says his major aim is to create "a strong and powerful middle class that will guarantee future stability." It is a commendable goal, but until such social forces develop, the future of reforms in both states may depend wholly on the political fate of their Presidents...
Taking advantage of the natural desire of people to see themselves as open-minded, revisionists also aim to plant a kernel of doubt within minds today so that future generations will question the unquestionable, creating an issue where one had never existed...
...about. I think, if I were challenged to fit them into this typology, they're novels which are metaphorical in structure and metonymic in texture, by which I mean on the surface. The movement of the story through space and time tends to conform to the metonymic type. I aim for a kind of plausibility of smooth continuity, but the underlying idea which unites the narrative, or encapsulates the thematic core of the book, is metaphorical...