Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Really, I was just throwing the ball up, and our receivers were making ridiculous catches," Wilford said. "I didn't really have to aim it. I was just heaving it up and they were just going to get it all the time. I was impressed...
...elusive enzyme could finally offer a target at which drug designers could aim their medications, just as they currently use protease inhibitors to block the activity of the AIDS virus. That potential target is called beta-secretase. It had long been postulated to act as a chemical scissors that helps snip away pieces of excess protein protruding from brain cells, thereby creating the debris that gathers into the toxic plaques called amyloid. The accumulation of these fibrous clumps in the brain of Alzheimer's patients is the likeliest reason for their inexorable decline...
...bucolic sculpture park, where modern form becomes the temptation of a jungle gym. Sadly, while "interaction" is encouraged, climbing is forbidden. The museum itself exhibits modern and contemporary American art, mostly by New England artists. The aim and presentation of the DeCordova is didactic, which results in an irritating excess of wall-text. Recent figurative painting is the perennial favorite here...
...College administration defends its Core curriculum by saying that the courses aim to expose us to different approaches in thinking and learning in different disciplines. No one can oppose such a laudable goal. But why can't we combine the study of approaches with the most classical backgrounds? To this, there has been no answer...
Once again New York's bully-boy Mayor has demonstrated his disregard for the Constitution by his cynical manipulation of religious sensibilities for selfish political ends. The Brooklyn Museum is fulfilling its mission; Giuliani's only aim is personal aggrandizement. MICHAEL A. JAMES Los Angeles...