Word: aims
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...faculty had succeeded in convincing theUniversity administration that it should aim atthe improvement of society and not be so detachedfrom the outside world," Mansfield says...
...rather than consumers. Further, Fallows argues, those internal economic policies are dangerous to other nations because Japan has rewritten the Clausewitz maxim that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Now it is commerce by which a country's political objectives will be attained, and Japan's aim is economic domination...
...weave an elaborate mystery, she could not have used a better tactic. But those who know her deny that that was her aim. A friend since Vassar days says Jackie had no idea how to answer questions and was scared of the press: "People thought she was stuck-up, but she just didn't have much confidence." Said author Manchester (The Death of a President): "After Kennedy died, she was exposed to a pitiless spotlight, and she did not know how to handle it." But another observer from White House days claims that Kennedy himself engineered the Garboesque stance...
...haven't read or bought his Colored People, but its apparent aim is to celebrate his acquisition of new clothes (with a very private label of "Chair" from the renowned designed, Harvard) and make some money while he's at it. Perhaps Gates should read less Derrida and more Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in particular...
...Saddam's aim is plainly to fulfill the letter of U.N. law by coming clean about Iraq's unconventional-weapons programs in order to get the sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow...