Word: intendancy
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...decrying America's moral choice, denying simultaneously that the noticeable absence tarnished the games. Whether or not you support the boycott, and whether or not Soviet medal figures and the number of records established had been the same without the boycott, the Games were undermined substantially. But did we intend to undermine the games or the Soviet Union? The second is contingent on the first, and both were neatly, if insignificantly, accomplished...
...precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that "we are not a nuclear power, nor do we intend to become...
...time, loyalty, which is often as blind as love and justice, can also be dangerous. Harry Truman stood by his fellow Missourian, Harry Vaughan, a shady military aide who consorted with influence peddlers throughout Truman's Administration. Ike had his Sherman Adams, Carter his Lance. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss," Dean Acheson told reporters in January 1950, citing as his precedent Matthew...
...even Tiffany, who was a vain man, could have anticipated the surge in the value of his work. But then he did not intend to be a glassmaker in the first place. He did not need to be. When he was born in 1848, his father was already on his way to becoming the most famous jeweler in the land. But young Louis had no wish to take over the family business. He set out to be a painter, studying for a year with George Inness, rather than going to college. In the end he discovered that the arts...
Nuclear power should be a major help. Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zealots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy. The country currently has 23 reactors in operation, providing 10% of its electricity, about the same percentage as in the U.S. But the Soviets intend to build fast. The present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year...