Word: intendancy
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Millions of telecommuters, of course, don't intend to wait for such an outcome. They have already set up quarters wherever they set down their laptops. "Today's office is an aging concept, 150 years old, that people have been hanging on to," argues Stevan Alburty, who runs WorkVirtual, an office-consulting shop. It's only a matter of time, telecommuting true believers claim, before city skyscrapers and suburban office parks are abandoned altogether, left as archaeological curiosities for future generations...
...Knight dramatizes an ethical dilemma in the longer term. We are approaching the day when we will be able to engineer personality traits into, or out of, the human makeup. When we come to bioengineering the next generation of coaches, do we intend to leave out the anger? Would the human race be better off without rage? Would competitive sports survive without it? Forget coaching basketball. How about professional football...
...survey also showed that around 76 percent of students plan to vote for Al Gore '69 in the next presidential election, compared to 17.3 percent who intend to vote for George W. Bush Fifty-eight percent of students surveyed identified themselves as Democrats, 10.8 said they were Republicans and 23.8 percent said they were independent...
...Evidently, one would hope that Critchley does not intend to mock AIDS victims, but the larger point behind this skit is unclear. The omnipresent stag banner decorated with condoms in the sign of a deflated male symbol is clever, but nonetheless its continued presence in every scene makes it impossible to view any skit as possessing serious intention...
...more of a blessing than a curse that the Conleys do not have an established House community to waltz into--one of their primary goals is to create a stronger sense of community at Kirkland House. The Conleys also intend to concentrate their efforts on intellectual, ethnic, and cultural missions to develop an "ethic of living" among their students. These are both admirable goals for the House and we hope that the Conleys are successful in their aspirations...