Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to negotiate when you don't know what your aim is," Proctor told Newsday...
With its forays into Manhattan's Washington Square Park for lessons in chess from a sympathetic father figure (here it's the always authoritative Samuel L. Jackson), the movie might aim to be a Searching for Bobby Fischer in the Hood. But Fresh is so much more: a really good film, for a start, made with a subtle precision that suggests a Vermeer landscape of the ninth circle of hell. Fresh alchemizes the terrifying cliches of urban melodrama into annihilating poetry. A guarantee: the film's last shot -- just a boy's face, in ruins -- will break your heart...
...Japanese officials are both expressing guarded pessimism early in the round of trade talks begun yesterday. The discussions aim to reduce the U.S.'s $60 billion trade deficit, due mostly to the sales of foreign-made autos here. The Clinton Administration is demanding that Tokyo increase the number of dealerships for American cars in Japan and that producers buy more American auto parts. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, in a televised interview, said an overall agreement is "probably unlikely." Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto agreed, saying that there were "many hurdles yet to be overcome . . . on both sides." The meeting wasn...
...know about it. Says Dr. Robert Shope, director of the Yale virus lab: "We're reasoning by analogy to other arenaviruses that Sabia has a rodent reservoir. Once the reservoir and transmission are understood, it should be possible to take measures to control the infection. This is our ultimate aim...
That is also the aim for the scores of other viruses that the Yale lab and a select few others in the U.S. receive constantly from around the world. Says Shope: "About 100 of the viruses we have can infect people, and of those, 10% to 20% can kill." But even if scientists find ways to deal with all of those, there will always be more. New viruses are continually leaping from animal populations, where they have circulated harmlessly for years, into humans, and the problem has only become worse as people have moved into formerly uninhabited areas...