Word: intendancy
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Russia does not intend to eliminate its armed forces entirely, of course, but it does not know precisely what external dangers it will have to defend against or what it might need for the purpose. Military planners in Moscow say they want to organize a relatively small, fast-moving high-tech force that could react swiftly to security threats along the troubled periphery. The generals expect to bring troop strength down to 1.5 million officers and men sometime after 1993. How soon depends on finding ways to house and employ the hundreds of thousands of professional officers who will...
...only in audiences being so small, but in people knowing how to read less and less...People don't know how to read in America, especially these political and sexual self-awareness groups. It's all this flat kind of standard. You have to use language exactly as they intend you to use it, use the words they intend. They never understand the use of irony, saying one thing to mean another; it's too complicated for them...They live in a flat horizon. You can't be playful with language, figurative language has no place for them. That...
Jaeger echoed Jackson, framing the contractquestion this way: "It is a moral question. It isa test of the University's character. It is astruggle for Harvard's soul and we intend...
...student, Hollis resident John A. Greene '96, denies ripping down any posters. He admits to kicking a few, but says he says he did not single out BGLSA posters, and did not intend to slight the organization...
Then there was the realization that women do not necessarily inhabit a loftier moral plane than the men they intend to dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make...