Word: intendancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because these three unions intend to demand pay raises consistent with the massive rise in the cost of living, it is likely that the negotiating process in each case will be extremely arduous. Harvard is adamant about not meeting exact increases in the cost of living, which is the very cause of the present impasse in the police negotiations...
...with a regularity that Shostakovich must have found dispiriting as well as baffling. His First Symphony, written in 1925 when he was 18, revealed such mastery of orchestration and startling harmonic originality that his reputation was immediately established. He believed in the ideals of the Revolution and did not intend his music to be subversive. But the career of his second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, was typical. At its premiere in 1934, critics called it a masterpiece, "the first monumental work of Soviet musical culture." So it remained for two years -until Stalin took in a performance...
...beginning of The Laughing Policeman, a Stockholm bus is found with eight people sitting in their seats, all shot to death. For thriller readers, a parallel tragedy has just struck. Last month Per Wahlöö died at 48 of pancreatic disease. Since his widow does not intend to continue their Martin Beck series, the literary toll seems higher than the one in the bus. It is as if an entire family of friends were abruptly wiped out. Few thriller writers have interwoven so many good recurring characters with their plots; only the late Margery Allingham comes to mind...
...that the proposed MASCO plant is necessary because Edison is not proceeding with the Colburn Street station are nonsense. If the MASCO institutions should continue to purchase their electricity from Edison for the forseeable future, Edison would immediately proceed with the construction of the Colburn Street installation and would intend to have it completed...
...Gerald Ford wanted to play it that way, conveying the image of just plain Jerry, hard at work and determined. Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, backed by four campaign aides, he read a brief, low-key statement in a firm, confident voice. Said the President: "I intend to conduct an open and aboveboard campaign"-a pledge that would have seemed superfluous in any but a post-Nixon period...