Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Petition sponsor Lydia Vickers explained the aim of the amendment to the council before the vote...
...personality before becoming a person." Known as the best high school ballplayer in Missouri history, he had college recruiters and newspapermen coming around all the time, but his parents weren't content to have their child be a jock. The pressure was always on him to study harder, aim higher, make something more of himself. And Bradley was willing to stay up half the night after a big win--not partying but studying. He seemed to enjoy the punishment. As his fame grew, he found escape in what he calls "a deepening of my own private world...
...most fields that would qualify him as a slacking underachiever. But since he's our new television critic, it means he's on the job. Since joining the magazine in July, he has been busy screening pilots for the new fall season. "I like shows that aim high. They're more interesting if they are either outrageously bad or outrageously good, as opposed to competently reliable," he says. This week, in addition to reviewing the new show Once and Again, he writes about personal video recorders, which some analysts maintain may change the way we watch...
...very strong aim was to make human rights as fully a part of a legal education as all the traditional courses, from torts to taxes," Steiner said...
...original pilot (which is being expanded to two hours) takes on body image, eating disorders and virginity, just for starters. Co-creators Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews talk excitedly about future theme issues: cheating, fame, the social pecking order (Bibb's cheerleader is named Brooke McQueen--get it?). They aim to make, as Murphy calls it, "a Zeitgeist show" that nails the teen experience du jour with rapid-response precision; they repeat "reality" and "real" like mantras...