Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different way of life than most people live." Referring to a new interest in modern art prompted by Professor Diane Upright's Core course on the subject, Beren calls tennis his own form of "art." "I do my best there because I enjoy it," he says, "not for any ulterior purpose like winning...
...they would stop having relations," points out Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. What is more, the Communist parties have a good reason to try new tactics: the need to increase their popularity at the polls. In Spain, Carrillo's ulterior motive may be that he is trying to broaden support for a party riven by factionalism and in serious danger of losing some of its 22 (out of 350) Cortes seats next year...
...with those ulterior motives that Brezhnev has recently had such a field day at Reagan's expense. He has reiterated the Soviets' longstanding protestations that theirs is a purely retaliatory, "second-strike" doctrine; he has denounced the notions both of limited nuclear war and of victory in such a war as dangerous fantasies, and he has floated a proposal for a joint Soviet-American renunciation of first use. That innocent-sounding suggestion is actually thoroughly loaded, since it would undercut the threat of first use on which Western deterrence partially rests...
Harvard's nine novice boats in Saturday's Tail of the Charles had an ulterior motive for shaving some seconds off their times--they wanted to get to The Game. So, while impatient friends gunned the motors of their Hertzes, three of the lightweight crews streaked into first, second and third places in their division and the three heavyweight crews pulled into fourth, fifth and eighth places...
...matched (and never overwhelmed) by the intelligence of its morality. And it is the presence of this latter quality that finally distinguishes it. It is not a blanket condemnation of investigative reporting. It simply says that unspeakable people can use the conventions of unnamed sources and unattributed quotes for ulterior motives, can twist them to make the journalist who thinks he is serving the public good actually serve private (or governmental) ends that are no good. Perhaps most important of all, the picture reminds us that many public actions are motivated by innocent private needs that may only look suspicious...