Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old takes to stages around the U.S., she transforms herself into a firebrand for African democracy. In the past month alone, she's spoken at the Mobil shareholders' meeting, lectured to black church leaders and led a vigil in front of the White House--all with the aim of raising U.S. support for the Nigerian pro-democracy movement. She's even struggling to fund her own foundation, the Kudirat Institute for Nigerian Democracy. With the unexpected death of Abacha last week, Abiola believes her message is more urgent than ever. "The military is weak," she says...
There was no money, no delivery, but what's more, no sense of culpability. I guess I had naively assumed that companies, especially businesses such as airlines, which are so highly competitive, aim to please their customers. I realized, however, that this consumer ideal does not necessarily extend beyond my own American experience. My assumptions of consumer/retail conduct are culturally grounded. The image of clean, bright-eyed, smiling salespeople looking up to the next person in line with a cheery, "Can I help you?" is as blatantly American as the white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I sometimes...
...strives to provide schools and libraries with affordable access to information technology [NATION, May 25]. In Boston, fewer than 10% of our students have home computers. Schools, libraries and community centers are the only places where students can use computers and access the Internet. Despite the corporate partnerships that aim to provide Internet access, local school systems and libraries are still picking up the vast share of the tab. In Boston, we are proud to have been in a financial situation that has allowed us to invest more than $50 million in technology. Other cities are not so fortunate; should...
...troubled about young teens having sex? Pinsky says a significant percentage may be reacting to having been sexually abused. He also suggests, though, that as a whole this group tends to be healthier, more inquisitive and "more realistic" than the older generation. That bodes well for Pinsky's aim to change the world. "We're not glamourizing sex; we are confronting behavior," he says emphatically. "The idea is to climb into their culture. I'll take any punch. I'm just grateful I'm welcomed...
...work, everything is staked on sensation and desire. His aim was not to argue coherence but to go for the strongest level of feeling. He conveyed it with tremendous plastic force, making you feel the weight of forms and the tension of their relationships mainly by drawing and tonal structure. He was never a great colorist, like Matisse or Pierre Bonnard. But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation. In the process, he reversed one of the currents of modern art. Modernism had rejected storytelling: what mattered was formal relationships. But Picasso brought...