Word: aims
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...establishment of several long-range committees. The University and the union will have new vehicles to explore seniority and how it should be applied in selecting workers for summer jobs; the overlap between the benefits offered for sick days and for short-term disabilities; and work rules, with the aim of fostering cooperation and making sure that the dining halls keep pace with technological advancements...
...after younger people," says Jeffrey Hon of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, citing recent Dewar's Scotch and Southern Comfort campaigns in such youth-culture bibles as Details and Rolling Stone. Shapiro says Seagram has taken "great pains that our advertising doesn't appeal to or aim at children," an iffy claim during a campaign that uses "Valedictorian" as a punch line. Why violate the ad ban? Market share. Hard liquor is slipping, and TV is where tomorrow's customers...
...twice a day), unofficially on the Internet, at K Mart, and in her catalog (Martha by Mail). In an interview, conducted as she shuttled among her farm in Westport, Connecticut, her two Hampton beach houses on New York's Long Island and her Manhattan office, she says her aim is nothing less than to take over Christmas. "It is our intention to own areas in communication. I don't mean to sound egomaniacal, but Perry Como used to own Christmas on TV. By own I mean monopolize and influence...
...assertion may well be voiced loudly during this year's presidential campaign after Wilson's new book, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, is published in September. Wilson says that it is "deliberately written to influence the widest possible audience" and that it takes dead aim at conservative Republican proposals for overhauling welfare, Medicare and other social programs. "I refuse to be intimated by the rhetoric of the Contract with America," says Wilson, who calls himself an unashamed liberal. "They have defined the terms of the debate, and I say their...
...sharp contrast to most porn, a genre in which it would usually be difficult to sell a film featuring a demure young woman who manages to unleash a cross-dresser's inner heterosexual (to cite an example from Strangers). While most of these series are produced by men, they aim--and succeed--at attracting a demographically balanced audience of males and females...