Word: aims
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Though Malpede's male characters are personifications of the worst of masculine qualities, her goal is not a celebration of the ways of men. She has the noble aim of showing the strength of women and celebrating life and birth. Her aim is realized. The cast and the production of Monster are generally strong, and the text rich. But above all, the thematic content is rewarding...
Mandela's damaged stature has achieved an important aim of De Klerk's white government: to demystify the A.N.C. and make clear that Mandela is only one of many black players. Before his next session with the A.N.C., De Klerk plans to meet with the leaders of the country's six self-governing black homelands and with the chairmen of the ministers' councils of the "colored" (mixed race) and Indian chambers to discuss "the structuring of the process of negotiation." The talks with the A.N.C. will set the ground rules for future bargaining on majority rule that will presumably include...
Officials involved with the study and the conference said yesterday that the report does not aim to answer the questions of how smoking cessation services can be improved but rather to pinpoint the issues involved...
...that the notion that children can outgrow casual attitudes toward brutality is wrong. Count on it: if you saturate young minds with materials showing that human beings are fit subjects for debasement or dismembering, the result will be desensitization to everything that should produce revulsion or resistance. The first aim of education is to develop respect for life, just as the highest expression of civilization is the supreme tenderness that people are strong enough to feel and manifest toward one another. If society is breaking down, as it too often appears to be, it is not because we lack...
Although few journalists aim to become intimate friends of homicidal psychopaths, most have felt ambivalent about the reporter-source liaison. That relationship is one in which loyalties are fragile, trust is withheld and manipulation by both the reporter (who controls access to the mass public) and the source (who controls access to information) is normal...