Word: aims
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Such weighty requirements may make those poorly prepared in language ineligible for concentrations with a large number of requirements, or may force them to stay an extra semester or two. A five-year Harvard undergraduate career? We hope this was not the aim of the Faculty Council in passing this recommendation, and we urge the full Faculty to reconsider and maintain bypasses in further reforms...
Henderson, a Dunster House resident and a candidate for president in this week's Undergraduate Council elections, said that the Salient hopes to continue in its aim "to provide a journalistic alternative to a predominantly liberal campus press...
With the help of a $500,000 federal grant, city leaders are taking aim at the muddy fields, rusted trash cans and tired paths that many say have turned one of Cambridge's most prized possessions into an eyesore...
...ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes and beauty of the human soul, and the existentialist numbness of its intermediate scenes, striking as they may be, are working against this effect...
...else fails, remember, there are still anywhere between 60 and 100 million mines planted in war zones all over the world. If it was profitable to plant mines, imagine how much these firms can make in the demining business. Indeed, that seems to be the aim of a number of companies who traveled to Ottawa to hawk their wares to treaty delegates. Bargains included the $500,000 remote-control mine detector, the supersonic air shovel and the Superman mine-awareness comic book. No word on what the hundreds of land-mine victims, observing the treaty signing on crutches...