Word: intendancy
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...FIGHTING, COMMODITY SEX and broken family ties intend to make a social statement beyond the psychological wars going on between the characters. Namely, that the emerging modern city at the beginning of the 20th century brought some bad living conditions and, considering Brecht was a Marxist, an intensified capitalism that had extended not only into the lumber mills but also into people's sex lives. The proletarian hero George Garga's change into an authoritarian lumber owner also points to the submerged importance of the individual and the increased importance of the social role in which the individual acts. Garga...
What about Ted Turner? The colorful entrepreneur was undeterred. "We believe that our offer . . . is far more attractive . . . and we intend to pursue it vigorously," said a Turner Broadcasting System statement. On Friday Turner asked the Federal Communications Commission to speed up consideration of his takeover bid so that CBS shareholders could vote on it simultaneously with the company's offer...
...laws. It is an open secret that Israel has its own atomic weapons program; Krytrons can be used as part of the trigger mechanism for nuclear arms. But Israel offered to return many of the switches, and the U.S. State Department accepted Jerusalem's explanation that it did not intend to use the devices in its atomic weapons program. Still, the incident demonstrates the ease with which highly sensitive technology necessary for nuclear-arms manufacture can, and does, escape control...
Brazil and Argentina are thought to be much further away from bomb-making capacity, but both countries show serious intentions of retaining at least the option for weapons development, even under their recently restored civilian governments. Both also seemingly intend to involve themselves as much as possible in peaceful nuclear commerce, thus extending an expanding web of nuclear relationships...
...Historically, innovations in music have taken place in the theater, and I intend to concentrate there," he says. "If I ask myself what I would do if I were 20 years old, I'd probably do just what I'm doing now. Which means I'm not about to sit back and wait for someone else to make the next musical leap. I think I'm just getting going. My best scores are the ones to come." If that is true, then the musical world is in for more invigorating shocks of the new from today's most innovative composer...