Word: aims
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...coming profusion of consumer choice, confusing as it may be, is just what lawmakers have in mind. Their aim is to open up competition in the $400 billion telecommunications industry, dismantling 61 years of regulations that have walled off TV and telephone companies into separate industries. Unshackling the market, advocates of reform argue, will benefit business and, in the long run, provide bargains for consumers. The House is expected to take up its version of a reform bill by the time Congress recesses at the end of next week, if not sooner. A companion measure passed the Senate last month...
...wasn't an aim at the time, it seemed like akind of a release," she added...
...subcommittees on crime and national security begin a joint eight-day hearing on ATF and FBI actions at Waco. The crime subcommittee plans two more hearings after the August congressional recess to examine other alleged ATF abuses and the enforcement of firearms laws in general. In short, congressional Republicans aim to ask whether the bureau should be allowed to survive. One of this week's inquisitors will be Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, an N.R.A. member who heads Newt Gingrich's Firearms Legislation Task Force. Barr asks, "At this point, do we really need...
...does with most issues where his leadership is on the line, Dole has charged his chief of staff with working out the differences and finding a compromise that can carry the votes. One basic problem is that the bill has engendered a fight between competing regions. Its chief aim is to transform welfare from an entitlement -- that is, a program in which Washington gives states enough money to pay benefits to everyone who is eligible -- to one where funding is handed out in block grants of fixed sums. But as Sunbelt Senators contemplate dividing up an annual $16.8 billion...
British filmmakers are ever mindful of the glory days, nearly a half-century ago, when the Ealing Studios produced a smart series of social comedies. Two of Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions...