Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes been said that the aim of most Harvard undergraduates is to spend four years in Cambridge as little encumbered with work as possible. With this in mind, the CRIMSON here presents an article by Donald Carswell '50, written some years ago and reprinted from time to time...
...keep them submerged by the force of his personality and, in his declining years, by his mere presence. "He was the hoop that held the staves of the barrel in round," says Pike. "Now that hoop is gone." As a result, fissures are likely to appear more frequently. The aim will remain the same?unifying Viet Nam under Hanoi's control?but the five contenders are likely to differ on the means. Pike believes, for example, that they disagree on the major policy issue confronting Hanoi?how best to win the war in the South. Giap, Dong and Le Duan...
Bias Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy, Congress should cut taxes on individuals by only $4.8 billion a year instead of $7.3 billion, and the total corporate tax intake should rise by only $3.5 billion instead of $4.9 billion. "We simply do not know enough about the future to commit ourselves" to any larger tax cuts...
...usually heads for an area in which the SPD either won narrowly or, in losing, drew at least 20% of the vote. Bundestag seats are figured on winning local votes and also on the basis of party percentage of the total vote; Grass's aim is to increase the Socialist national percentage and thereby secure more seats for the party...
...still intends to aim his show at "the young, the disaffected and the minority groups," but he has added another group: "Big business." Or, in other words, "not just the havenots, but also the haves who have something to say." Along these more practical lines, the Smotherses have also reorganized their production company. The trouble with the old company, says Tommy, is that "all our beautiful intentions didn't have a solid foundation of financial logic and production schedules behind them. We had all those long-haired creative types walking around, but none of those smart cats in brown...