Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were shattered. Previously, rival factions shot and shelled each other from fixed positions. The result was stalemate. Now leftist Moslem forces, spearheaded by a group called the Independent Nasserites, have launched an offensive to win a clear victory. Moving out of their base area in southwest Beirut, the Nasserites intend to cut through the city up to the sea, thereby flanking some Phalangist positions and driving other rightist forces into the eastern part of the city...
Schweiker and Hart are considering holding public hearings on the FBI and Oswald. For the time being, the Senators intend to conduct their probe privately. But in the unlikely event that the subcommittee turns up solid evidence that discredits the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, the two Senators will propose that Congress reopen the entire investigation into the assassination of John Kennedy...
...government will last. In my opinion, it is not now going in a good direction. The left in Portugal is unhappy. They believe the government is too far to the right. And it is necessary to do something about this because the government is not of the right. I intend to convince them with action. On subjects like agrarian reform, I am quite sure that just talking is the wrong way to resolve things. Action is the only...
...between banks, but for 61 years it has been interpreted as not applying to links between the boards of banks and nonbanking firms. Now the Justice Department is saying that it does. To the defendants, this sudden new interpretation of the law seems very tenuous and unwarranted, and they intend to fight. Prudential refused to sign a consent order, and no company plans to fire its shared directors...
...days, the President once again left the secure confines of the White House to tour the U.S. "I can only say that two-way communication with my friends and fellow Americans is for me an essential part of doing the job properly," he told an audience in Chicago. "I intend to keep my communications open, not in any foolhardy spirit, but by every prudent and practical means...