Word: aims
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...homosexuality. Hence this summer's Defense of Marriage Act, which focused not on keeping heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...
...TAKING AIM...
Former president Bush took aim at the man who defeated him in 1992, saying, "It breaks my heart when the White House is demeaned, the presidency diminished." Paying tribute to Dole's World War II heroism and decades of loyal Republican spadework, Bush said of Dole: "He will be a president we can look up to. He will do us proud...
...announced he had a concrete plan to end the fighting, if the government would only concentrate enough power in his hands. Lebed wants control of all army units in the Chechnya, and the authority to appoint federal officials up to the level of deputy minister. But is Lebed's aim only to end the war in Chechnya or to also consolidate his power base within the Kremlin? Lebed, who came into Yeltsin's circle only a few months ago after finishing third in the first round of Russian elections, has already made enemies in the Yeltsin camp, most notably Prime...
...goal for yourself before you read this article. Don't make it too ambitious. Say to yourself that you will aim for 2 seconds a day. Two seconds a day, or 12 minutes a year. In twelve minutes, you can get out of Ec 10 lecture or make the guy at the other end of the radio of the drive-through Burger King understand your order. That is a lot of time saved...