Word: aims
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Still, idealists would be quick to point out that the aim of a newspaper is not just to be profitable–it’s to be informative and (perhaps) thought provoking. The fact that these columnists are less available may have very real costs: On the night of the 19th, those bloggers with a flair for drama began making bleak predictions of the number of votes the Democratic Party would lose in the next election as a result of the corralling of some of its most celebrated voices...
...would now actually like to retract the title of this piece. We certainly do have something to be proud of. A record-equaling haul is astonishing and our athletes deserve great praise. I would just like to suggest that in the future we aim for athletic achievements with a student body chosen without such a goal in mind...
...series hopscotches to so many locations (the Carolinas, the Antarctic, the ocean trenches) that you briefly forget that it gives you no reason to feel afraid or intrigued or anything else. It does aim, clumsily, at a sense of wonder, with so much faux Spielberg--a boy hiding a creature in his house, à la E.T.; an average guy who becomes obsessed with the secret, à la Close Encounters--that NBC might as well have called this Jaws: The Series. Instead it was called Fathom, then renamed the equally limp Surface. Now people can't say, "I cannot fathom...
...down, goddammit," a Green Beret hollers to his Iraqi counterparts. On their bellies, two weapons sergeants start loading an 84-mm M-3 antitank recoilless rifle. "They got guns," says a commando shouldering a rocket launcher. "Let's f_______ do this." He kneels, exposing himself without any choice, takes aim and fires. Whump. The top of the insurgents' building blossoms black smoke. Over the cacophony of machine-gun fire and explosions, the leader of the commando team bellows to his men that the insurgents have spotted them. "Displace, displace--they got our position!" he yells, as the troops vacate...
KATSUAKI WATANABE Everyone should be dissatisfied with the present situation and should constantly try to improve or change things. It's important to realize that there is always something more we need to aim at. That's what needs to be recognized by every individual. When you're growing, you're satisfied with the status quo, and that's no good...