Word: intendancy
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Officials of the center said they were pleasantly surprised by the book's success and are not yet sure how they intend to spend the funds...
...file a suit for negligence, under which a plaintiff would have to prove carelessness on the part of Union Carbide. But more appealing is the doctrine of strict liability, under which negligence need not be proved. Said Belli: "It doesn't matter that you didn't intend to bring harm. What matters is that it happened. In this Bhopal case we can damn well prove that it happened." His plan: "We'll have videotape of all those poor bastards who are sick and dying. We will have a brochure on every single person who was killed...
...federal deficit could throttle the recovery. Months before Feldstein resigned his post "the CEA was frozen out by the rest of the White House," says a senior Treasury official. The CEA has languished without a chairman ever since. The two remaining council members, William Niskanen and William Poole, intend to leave by the end of January...
...little faith in the stability of banks. Wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816: "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Andrew Jackson, who never concealed his distrust of powerful moneymen, told a group of them, "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout...
...action, and in return the Japanese had agreed to end all commercial whaling by the end of 1988. But whether the Japanese will stand by the agreement appears to be in doubt. Late last week, Shigeru Hasui, managing director of the Japan Whaling Association, declared that "we do not intend to stop whaling after 1988 because there is no reason...