Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ibanez said last night that the committee's primary aim now is to investigate non-tenured positions for Blacks and Hispanics...
...worldwide embargo against Iraq working? Depends partly on what is meant by working, an ill-defined concept. But if State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler is correct in stating that "the aim of these sanctions is to change the behavior of the government of Iraq," the answer is no. The embargo is causing hardship all right, but the deprivation is probably not severe enough to force Iraq to pull out of Kuwait, at least not within any time frame that the Bush Administration could accept...
...listmakers wed advanced computer technology to an ever expanding data base to churn out highly specialized rolls of potential customers. They aim to know not only where you are but also who and what you are. By cross-indexing lists obtained from credit agencies, political parties, mail-order companies and other organizations, a direct-mail specialist can merge and compare the data to identify the groups you belong to, the car you drive, the party you vote for, the amount you paid for your house. All this helps direct marketers identify the goods, services and causes that might...
...direct mailer can then aim a solicitation at a letter box with a precision bordering on the scientific. While some people find the attention flattering, others consider it insidious. "There's something kind of creepy about companies knowing more about you than your own family, and compiling and trading information about you behind your back," says Robert Ellis Smith, editor of the watchdog newsletter Privacy Journal. Direct marketers strongly deny that they are intruders. "Nobody wants dossiers compiled about them," says Michael Manzari, president of Kleid Co., a New York City concern that brokers and manages lists...
...Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons makes nearly impossible the restoration of stability and security in the gulf area -- a restoration that the President has declared is an important aim...