Word: intendancy
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State Department spokesmen this week said they did not intend anything sinister by the request, which was sent to universities in the form of questionnaires about Chinese students' plans of study and their contacts within the institutions...
...chapters provide an informative, though cursory, survey of thoughts on the brain. Mixed in are humorous digressions: a riddle that supposedly leaves thinkers catabolic (literally) and a brief parable of a man with no head. Often the pieces do not seem to interrelate, but the editors don't intend them to. Their only goal is to present ideas which will undermine the reader's complacent view of his own intellect...
...protesters come to life, with Harding guessing the thoughts behind their actions. His hypothesizing of the motives of Frederick Douglass, John Brown and others makes the book more interesting while also introducing doubt about the accuracy. But he did not intend the book to be simply a survey of Black radicalism, or a general history of Blacks or Black protests. River is an attempt to find the underlying emotions that drove them forward to overcome and remove all obstacles. And despite some interpretation of history to serve the "river" theme, the plethora of examples and sources indicates that very little...
...fourth term--despite Proposition 2 1/2--Berman doesn't intend to give up any of her traditional priorities for the schools: Affirmative Action in the teaching staff, varied programs and effective curriculum planning--she also continues to have a particular interest in the physical education programs for the skillful and not-so-skillful in the Cambridge Public Schools...
Sensing a good market for in-depth commentary on major Cambridge political issues and the arts, Robert Heroux, editor of the Express, described the weekly as a "literate alternative to the Phoenix." Heroux said, "We intend to take a balanced press approach. We are not going in with any specific bias, but will stress a much more analytical and objective commentary...