Word: aims
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Charlotte Crabtree, an emeritus professor of education at UCLA and co- director of the National Standards project, answers that Cheney's by-the- numbers critique shows "a lack of understanding of what the standards are about." One aim of the guidelines is to promote "inclusive history" by acknowledging the achievements of Americans -- blacks, Native Americans and women, notably -- who were ignored or marginalized in textbooks of the past. Another goal was to "get away from memorizing mind-numbing names of people, which history students just hate...
Kennedy, too, has been a fertile source of material for commentators who, ignoring his record, have taken aim at his personal foibles. Romney and his handlers have cleverly used Kennedy's girth as representative of a bloated, spent bureaucracy...
Having apparently no one else to blame (since no self-respecting politician would even think of blaming himself), congressional-wannabes have taken aim at the institution of Washington and are starting to blow it away. Few have stopped to think what will be left, if anything, when they move onto Capitol Hill...
...poured the first of several millions into it. It was supposed to keep tabs on the narcotics trade but never produced much antidrug intelligence. (No wonder, since the CIA was relying largely on drug users; Constant, for example, is widely believed to be a cocaine addict.) The real aim, however, was to use SIN to recruit agents who could supply political and military intelligence -- and never mind if they were engaging in human- rights violations at the same time. In 1987 the CIA also financed candidates in Haitian elections and refused to tell Congress which ones -- foolishly, because everyone knew...
...Normally we aim for Columbus Day weekend for startup, but sometimes weather conditions say when we start," said Andrew J. Culhane, building operations supervisor...