Word: goals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vilmure clearly is determined to take on that goal. He makes his first novel his own, in theme, voice and imagery. Life in the Land of the Living is set in contemporary Florida--where Vilmure grew up--and follows two brothers as they take off into the oppressive heat of a southern August night. Victims of a broken home, the nameless brothers tell of their experiences with the violent and the gruesome as they wander through their desolate town...
Yale scored a last-second touchdown to down the Quakers three weeks ago. Harvard scored four touchdowns and a field goal and held Penn to only 14 points Saturday...
...answer comes quick as a rifle's report: peace. But peace has many last names. President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his U.S. supporters declare that they want peace with democracy. The armed forces vow to accept only peace with national security. And the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. says its goal is peace with freedom from U.S. interference. A former government official despairs of ending the war. "This is a country that is never going to be at peace with itself," he says. "In El Salvador, peace is a bastard child...
...house in order. Nor will a devaluation remove the need for U.S. manufacturers to improve their quality and efficiency and learn how to promote their products in foreign markets. A gradually declining dollar may be a painful necessity now, but the U.S. should never lose sight of the goal of any prosperous trading nation: to be able to sell abroad and still have a currency strong enough to buy a lot in return...
...gangs set fire to the electoral council's headquarters in downtown Port- au-Prince, to a store owned by a prominent council member, and to a plant where ballots were being printed. "We are determined to hold elections," declared the Rev. Alain Rocourt, council treasurer. But, he added, that goal now "may be extremely difficult if not impossible...