Word: intendancy
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Aristide: I intend, and have always intended, to leave power at the end of my constitutional term. I have no interest in remaining past that time, no matter how I have spent the years of my presidency. As Haiti's first freely elected President, I feel it is my duty to observe strictly the letter as well as the spirit of the constitution. In leaving office and handing over power to a new freely elected President, I will have completed my mission, and that is all I ever wanted...
Eighner, a writer down on his luck, did not intend to be homeless. His three-year experience is not the result of some literary experiment, an attempt to gain writing material firsthand. Instead, Eighner started his odyssey between Texas and California because he simply did not have enough money to pay the month's rent. But the process towards homelessness proved far from simple...
...more symbol than substance, given an enormous catch. In 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that public education is guaranteed to all children in the U.S. and that denying schooling to illegal immigrants violates the Constitution. The backers of 187 are perfectly aware of the legal obstacle and intend to use it as a vehicle for testing the law. As Wilson emphasized, "the save-our-state initiative is the two-by-four we need to make them take notice in Washington and provoke a legal challenge that will go all the way to the Supreme Court...
...former executive board member said some students decided not to run after certain controversial council members announced they intend to return...
While Clinton realizes he needs to court public support, he does not intend to seek explicit congressional approval. Lawmakers do not seem sufficiently united to block an invasion, but Republicans can be counted on to criticize the President. They are already charging that an invasion is just a political stunt timed to boost the Democrats' sagging electoral fortunes. In fact what most Congressmen really want, says a Capitol Hill staff member, "is to be consulted, but let Clinton take the heat." Beginning Monday, the Administration's national-security officials will launch a sortie on Capitol Hill to brief key lawmakers...