Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haynes radioed the tower that he thought he could reach the airport. But he was unable to line up the plane for a landing on Runway 31 (on a northwest bearing of 310 degrees), where most of the emergency crews were waiting. He told the tower that he would aim instead for Runway 22 (southwest at 220 degrees), which was 6,880 ft. long -- just enough to handle a DC-10 under normal circumstances. When the jet appeared headed toward Runway 22 on a surprisingly level and steady approach, anxious ground observers were elated. Haynes radioed the tower, "I think...
Created by Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died...
...alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace plan to his own political survival nor hide the painful truth that as long as that is his primary aim, Shamir will be vulnerable to right-wing pressure...
Spike Lee, whose films intentionally raise social and political questions, has made this summer's most controversial movie, Do the Right Thing, about race relations in a hot New York City neighborhood. His movies don't just aim to please; they expose stereotypes and vent his anger...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grouped together this spring to form the May Fourth Foundation, which attempted to raise money to buy word processors and fax machines to send back to students in China. And students from the Boston area founded the China Information Center with the aim of gathering and spreading information about the prodemocracy movement...