Word: aims
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State Department officials are concerned about the fate of the government, but right now the Bush Administration would like Panama's leaders to stop their squabbling and take aim at such pressing problems as unemployment. During the Noriega crisis, analysts said toppling the dictator would be easy compared with creating a stable government. Now they are seeing how right they were...
...wealth and risk American blood on this huge scale. But the debate has focused too much on what we need to achieve to re-establish order: Saddam Hussein dead, or off his perch, or out of Kuwait, or merely cowed from further territorial ambition? We need a clear war aim with respect to oil as well. And the only such aim that would begin to justify the cost and the danger is one directed at our beneficiaries, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as our enemy, Iraq: the oil price-fixing conspiracy must end for good...
...beautiful pictures should be avoided. The more pictures, the fewer recipes. But my second favorite new book is Pacific Flavors by Hugh Carpenter (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $35). The gorgeous photography is by Teri Sandison, but it can be forgiven because of the imaginative excellence of the recipes. Carpenter's aim is to blend Oriental flavors with American cooking techniques, thus preserving the flavors of the East but eliminating many of the more tedious steps required in traditional Eastern recipes. Even the Oriental flavorings he uses are now fairly common grocery-store items...
...aim of the program is to inspire black adolescents to pursue higher education. So far, the results are encouraging: every one of the 29 students in the inaugural class went on to college, four to top-ranked Davidson and one to the University of Virginia...
...aim is to build in every bit of fright imaginable. Riders want it," explains coaster designer Ronald Toomer. Most of the new roller coasters are constructed with tubular steel, which lends itself to loops and corkscrew twists. But a number of coaster builders are putting modern tracks and cars within a traditional latticework of wood, which provides the sense of ricketiness, danger and nostalgia that riders love. In fact, roller coasters are safer than ever. Unlike old coasters, which speed out and back over often predictable sets of hills, today's rides careen through tight turns, 60 degrees plunges...