Word: intending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intend to revisit the United States, nor can I say what power has transported my spirit hither. I must speculate that my presence here implies a responsibility related to the one I assumed more than 150 years ago, when I spent nine months traveling in this country. I was 26, and the nation had enjoyed barely 50 years of independence. America impressed me as a place where the experiment in Democracy, the social revolution that so agitated my contemporaries , was being most peaceably and generally conducted. So, in Democracy in America, I attempted to explain how a multitudinous people contrived...
Despite the criticism, Ueberroth has used his highly visible position to popularize his plan. It seems to be an issue on which he does not intend to lose...
...instead always thought of them as an act of confrontational protest. Yes, shanties are ugly, but so is the behavior of Harvard in the Cambridge community and in the world. We stand in opposition to the Harvard which organizes internships for uranium companies in South African-occupied Namibia. We intend to remain, facing arrest or disciplinary charges if necessary, to greet the members of the Alumni Against Apartheid on Commencement day. Richard H. Drayton '86 Member, Open University
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin told TIME last week that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...from Overseers Secretary Robert Shenton, highlighting the enclosed "brief, factual description" of Harvard's policies on South Africa, all backing Mrs. Bok's letter. As has been cogently demonstrated by others, the Harvard description is not so objectively factual; it is, rather, in the sense Mr. Shenton did not intend, a "brief," and as such ought properly to have been accompanied by an answering brief...