Word: aims
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Some programs aim to break down racial and ethnic barriers. Inner-City Outreach summer integrates youths from the Franklin Field and Franklin Hill housing projects, with the hope of ending the community's racial--and gang-oriented--factionalism...
...sending them to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba -- and sparked rumors in Haitian and U.S. political circles that invasion is imminent. But TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson doubts it: Haitian strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras is sending signals that he might step down in August, a major aim of the Clinton Administration...
...ultimate insurance for the survival of his regime and / the succession of his son Kim Jong Il. If this is correct, Kim's repeated agreements to allow inspectors to work freely, and his subsequent refusals to live up to them, are part of a stalling game. His aim may be to string the West along until the end of the year, when he could have the plutonium for six or eight atom bombs -- which might be enough to deter attack or blackmail a neighbor. By this theory, confrontation -- even war -- may be the only way to stop...
...West's demands will not stop once he ends production. Seung Soo Han, South Korea's ambassador to the U.S., says that his government is as intent on learning whether the North already has the plutonium for a bomb as in stopping Pyongyang from making new weapons. "Our ultimate aim," he says, "is to make the Korean peninsula nuclear free...
...intelligent, ambitious singer, Glyndebourne is a paradise. Promising beginners aim for the chorus in part because choristers are also the understudies. More established singers seek out Glyndebourne either to learn a role or to do spring cleaning on one they already know. But for an international star, going there is time consuming and economically disastrous. The commitment is to at least five weeks of rehearsals and about 14 performances, with a no-play-no-pay proviso and no stipend for rehearsal time. The top salary is $1,800 per performance; international stars earn as much as $12,000 a night...