Word: intending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator William Cohen views it, Congress wants "to practice the Golden Rule." By striving to cut imports from countries thought to discriminate against U.S. products, says the Maine Republican, "we intend to do unto others what they do unto us." To President Reagan, however, the anti-import rumblings are sounds not of piety but of recklessness, the beginning of "a mindless stampede toward . . . economic disaster," as he put it at his news conference last week...
...burdens of a single black South African. For those who truly care about the injustices of apartheid, the right course is to look for positive steps that a university can take to help black South Africans work toward a better future marked by human dignity and political freedom. I intend to pursue this course in the coming months and to increase Harvard University's efforts in the direction...
...Soviet Union is anxious to gain better access to advanced technology developed in the U.S. How badly is this needed in the Soviet Union, and primarily for what purpose? If the U.S. does not provide greater access, where do you intend to turn to obtain this technology...
Still more sweeping changes are rumored to be on the way. Pledging to revive the economy and institute a new regime of discipline and hard work, Gorbachev warned in May that "those who do not intend to adjust and who are an obstacle to solving these new tasks must simply get out of the way." He followed up in June with a speech denouncing stodgy production ministries and their ministers. Tougher yet, he cited four of the incompetents by name. Moscow gossip has it that unless the Old Guard can somehow figure out a way to stop him before...
...sabotaged by the bureaucracy. For all his decisiveness, Gorbachev is the head of what really is a collective leadership, not a Stalinist dictatorship. His reluctance to take on the planners may also reflect a concern that economic decentralization implies an easing of political controls, which Gorbachev does not intend or feels he cannot risk at this point...