Word: intendancy
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...four. The voting booths had closed in California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends in his 17th-floor suite and drifted off into a long-awaited deep sleep at midnight...
...Five years from now when I turn over the presidency to my successor, I intend to hand over a new country," Duarte has vowed. Amid last week's joyous hoopla, that statement struck no one as recklessly hopeful...
Repair the Statue of Liberty [NATION, May 14]? Better to let it rot. If we fix it up, foreigners looking for a better life might actually believe that we intend to welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...
...closing, then, we are not talking about a job any student can do. I know I couldn't do it. That we are fortunate enough to have a hardworking, qualified undergraduate working for us should not be an issue. We intend to get the most qualified employee we can find. This year I think we did quite well. Gregg Lyss '85, Chairperson Undergraduate Council
...impact of American investment on the lives of the victims of apartheid is minimal compared to the benefits to the ruling whites and the society they intend to prop up at any cost...