Word: intendancy
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McLaughlin doesn't intend simply to follow in Phelps's footsteps now that he's at the helm himself. "I admire Digger, but I'm going to be myself," he says...
...ordered all the institutions around the country that it touches to file plans by next week showing how they intend to comply with the new regulations. The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, responsible for enforcing building-access requirements, has been accepting complaints for the past two years but so far has issued only two formal citations of violation (both of them against federal agencies). Institutions not federally funded have until 1980 to bring their buildings constructed before 1973 into compliance...
Thus businessmen are unusually cautious these days in planning for the future. According to a McGraw-Hill survey, they intend to increase real spending -that is, after allowing for inflation-on new plant and equipment next year by only 3%. That would represent a sharp drop from this year's increase of about 8%, which economists consider insufficient. Indeed, the Administration had hoped for an 8% to 10% increase in capital spending next year to keep production growing, bring down unemployment and continue the nation's recovery from the deep recession...
...Berger's rigid interpretation, the post-Civil War Congress was dominated by "Negrophobia"; it was willing to extend to blacks rudimentary civil rights, such as equal punishment for crimes and the right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce...
...intend to default anyway," Eric Cornwell '79 said yesterday. "But if I did, interviewing me wouldn't help," he added...