Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less than to change the minds of Americans about what is going on in China and why they should care about...
That exciting disorientation is an aim shared by Walker, who is fascinated by the possibility that Dionysos might be earlier and more eastern than Hellenistic civilization...
...this, she points out, hastens the activity of the drama to its violent and destructive end--Agave blindly helps to rip apart her own son Pentheus, the leader of the city. It is a revolution, although without the specific aim of liberation ("I don't think of it in that 60s kind of way," Walker explains...
...time All-Ivy Player, was named "National Player to Watch" last spring--an award bestowed to one individual by the ITA. James, recovering from a shoulder injury, expects to be one of the top five seeds. The duo also plan to play doubles together and aim to be in the top ten bracket...
...recent mass events understand this difficulty. They serve as support groups and even as communities. Their aim, however, is to help the individual with his actions. It would be a mistake to think of these gatherings as undifferentiated communitarian blobs. These people, when the marches are over, have to return home and make their choices alone, one at a time...