Word: aims
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Anti-smoking groups are taking aim at Harvard Education School Dean Patricia A. Graham, charging that her association with the RJR Nabisco Foundation is inappropriate and may be creating a conflict of interest at the Ed School...
Until recently, new tobacco brands met little resistance. But target marketing has taken on an odious reputation as tobacco makers aim for the few groups that have been slow to kick the habit. The companies have long argued that they are selling a legal product to consumers capable of making their own choices, but as cigarette makers focus on younger and less-educated consumers, that argument becomes harder to support...
...aim of the show is to bring people together, all at once, to give people a chance to look at the different ethnicities, look at the differences in them," he said...
...Intifada began because the land that was open to the Palestinians 23 years ago now has to be avoided by them," Shahak said. He added that the Intifada is a democratic organization with the "tragic aim of changing the society internally...
Last week's agreement between the two countries to start immediate negotiations to replace the East German ostmark with the West German deutsche mark provided the starkest reminder yet of the downside of unification. The immediate aim of the monetary union is to stanch the East German stampede to the West, which continues at the rate of 2,000 a day. The theory is that if Easterners were more confident about their country's economic future, they would be less prone to flee. The first step in that process is to replace East Germany's funny money with West Germany...