Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vainly to remain in a stage of life you can't be in anymore, instead of enjoying the stage you are in?" asks Dr. Nada Stotland, 51, an HRT dropout. Stotland, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago, says she is "extra skeptical, because there are powerful forces that aim one toward prescribed hormones, but there is no profit motive in not prescribing something...
...Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo? Is that the aim?" Then he answered, "Not for the moment...
...family hour" between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Such kid-oriented shows as Full House have been canceled, and adult comedies like NBC's Friends, CBS's Cybill and ABC's Roseanne will now air at 8 p.m. Network programmers point out that they can no longer afford to aim prime-time shows strictly at children, since advertisers spend most of their dollars targeting the 18-to-49 age group. Says ABC television network president David Westin: "There was a time when most households had only one TV set, so majority ruled. But with the increase in households with...
...stuck with their own problem of violence in the media -- and it's not just Schwarzenegger's body counts. "Jackbooted thugs,'' the description of federal law-enforcement agents in a fund-raising letter from the National Rifle Association, is a kind of cop-killer lyric in itself. So is "aim at the head" -- radio talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy's suggestion for greeting federal law-enforcement agents at your door...
...Dole traveled to Los Angeles to knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...