Word: intendancy
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...Soviets operate with a rigid ideology that defines time as an ally, sets long-term objectives and a schedule to achieve them. They simply believe the state of things in today's world is temporary and intend, within the framework of a grand design, to change the world as conditions become favorable. Forcing them to do with less grain or fish will not be enough to change their minds...
...Well aware that normalization is opposed by nearly the entire Arab world, the Egyptians seemed almost embarrassed by the proceedings. They have not yet begun to search for an embassy location in Tel Aviv. And, although the land border between the two countries is now officially open, the Egyptians intend to limit sharply the number of Israeli tourists allowed to drive to Cairo via Sinai...
...cease-fire camps. "If I had suddenly made it two weeks or a month," he says, "the same thing would have happened. They wouldn't have gone in until the last moment. I wasn't budged off [the assembly deadline] and I don't intend to be budged off the election date [Feb. 27-29] either...
Some Agriculture Department officials fear that too much aid may be granted to farmers, whose total net income had slumped to under $20 billion in 1976 and 1977 but jumped to $27.9 billion and more than $32 billion respectively in the past two bountiful years. Administration aides intend not only to prevent farmers from losing too much from the embargo but also to guard against their making too much...
...This is the kind of smattering of courses we intend to do more of in the future," Brustein said, adding "we hope it will be done for credit as well as for non-credit...