Word: aims
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Although Todd, who is also co-chair of the EPC, did not specifically mention the Faculty's aim to reduce requirements in the letter to students, "the overall number and nature of required courses, " will be the EPC's focus, Knowles wrote...
...unions aim to find out where they stand. The next showdown is likely to involve the 2,000 pilots of the Independent Pilots Association who fly UPS aircraft. I.P.A. president Robert Miller, echoing the Teamsters, declares that his pilots are no longer prepared to accept salaries below the industry average. Elsewhere, a slew of collective-bargaining confrontations is upcoming, but none with the public impact of UPS. President Clinton averted a potential strike by Amtrak workers last week. The United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 44,000 supermarket workers in Northern California, has a contract expiring in February...
...initial aim of the funds, which were developed in the 1950s, was to protect against market risk and earn greater return in times of sluggish stock-market performance. The notion had a simple elegance: If rich investors could cash in during booms by betting on winners, couldn't they profit during busts by betting against losers? The first funds were fairly simple, usually holding 50% of their assets in long-term investments that were expected to rise over time, and 50% in short positions in stocks or bonds that were considered overvalued. (In a basic short position a fund sells...
Supporters argue that an approach that aims at people's hearts and focuses on spiritual renewal is better at turning troubled lives around, and there's some evidence for that. "No matter how much counseling, no matter how much social work we put into someone, until we give them something spiritual to fill that void, they won't really change," says the Rev. Ralph E. Williamson, a minister on the staff of the Mecklenburg County, N.C., department of social services with 23 years' experience in the field. "I always tell people that I can't bring salvation through the department...
...years he kept Boris Yeltsin in his sights. But now the President's former bodyguard and top adviser, ALEXANDER KORZHAKOV is taking aim at his ex-boss. In Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk, he depicts Yeltsin as a vodka-swilling wreck of a man. (He's even selling off the family album--his snapshots of Yeltsin hanging out in Sochi.) One unsubstantiated secret he claims: when Yeltsin sent in tanks against his foes in Russia's White House in 1993, he celebrated before the battle was won in what Korzhakov says was his usual fashion: by getting thoroughly soused...