Word: aims
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...clearly important that all of us do whatever we reasonably can to contain our costs without eroding the essential quality of our programs and services. The central administration has an essential part to play in that effort, and this budget is an important step in achieving that aim...
...primary aim is to increase the size of the faculty and to get experts in the faculty in areas [in which] we have great necessity," Clark said. "Naturally, the more [women and minorities] we appoint, the more the faculty will start to look like the composition of lawyers...
That is more than will come from bullyragging by Congress. In fact, if its actions prompt an increasingly confrontational tone, an already suspicious Beijing might be convinced that the U.S.'s real aim is not cooperation but, as in days past, containment-a situation in which, as Levin puts it, the "two countries could come to see each other as enemies." In short, a vision that might become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...week after his first concrete veto threat (against certain spending cuts in the current budget), President Clinton took aim at two more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...
Like most revolutions, the one Kasich and Domenici aim at will not be accomplished without savage battles. The Democrats launched a withering barrage against the proposals even before they were fully spelled out. Reporters filing into the White House briefing room for the start of two days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized...