Word: aims
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...Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics," Buchanan told Nixon, according to Nixon's 1978 memoir. As a speechwriter, Buchanan used Vice President Spiro Agnew as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy for his white-hot resentments of the political and media...
...have never seen a genuine, sustained shortage of engineers or scientists in this country. However, I have seen corporate-financed propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high-tech workers and of the need for some drastic government action to increase the supply. The unspoken aim is to create enough of a surplus so that American engineers and scientists will be forced to settle for modest salaries and benefits. DONALD A. RYAN Salinas, California
...aim of the substation is to give students and potential intruders a sense of an increased police presence in the Yard, Riley said...
...disavows any interest in the complicated stock-market gymnastics that lead to instant wealth. "An IPO is not an end in itself," he declares. "It's a vehicle to finance growth, not to make investors rich. That happens too, but it shouldn't be the goal." The real aim, Bender says, is to help founders build their companies, "something out of nothing, like an artist painting on a canvas." Perhaps so. But the public has its own ideas about the difference between art and commerce...
Such eye-catching assertions, which beg the disputable question of whether the Egyptians actually were black, are being promoted by radical Afrocentrists in college classrooms across the U.S. today. The principal goal is to free the teaching of world history from its traditional Euro-focus. A secondary aim is to give minority students pride in the achievements of their ancestors. Up to a point these are unexceptionable goals, concedes Mary Lefkowitz, a professor of humanities at Wellesley. But in a fierce little polemic called Not Out of Africa (BasicBooks; 222 pages; $24), she argues that the Afrocentrists substitute pseudo history...