Word: intendancy
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Sponsors of the tax cuts intend them to help balance the federal budget, but leading Democrats called the plan "a Rube Goldberg scheme" that would cripple Congress's economic policy-making powers...
...Alunni, 30, a prime suspect in the kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Alunni has brushed off every question by reciting the terrorist version of name, rank and serial number: "I consider myself a fighting Communist and a political prisoner in a state concentration camp and do not intend to collaborate with this system of justice." Even so, the probe into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest in Milan, Alunni and his paramour, Maria Zoni, had spent...
...last 20 years Kheel has been involved in the closing of five newspapers, the bankruptcy of several railroads as well as the bankruptcy of New York City, Murdoch said. "We don't intend to let him continue that process," he added...
Castro testified he did not intend the statement as a threat. "My intention," he said, "was to warn the government that we know about the plots against our lives...
...preface to Silences, Tillie Olsen takes a sentence from Andre' Gide as her epigram: "I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance." It is in her discussion of the subtler, unspoken, often unconscious ways society has of grinding human beings down that she comes closest to inspiring hope in the reader. By asking the writer "questions" is this true? Is this all?" Olsen overturns values that too many repressed people unconsciously accept. Here she lists the insights stored up during her period of silence. Each is a revelation in miniature, liberating the reader from widely--held misconceptions, many...