Word: intending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four. The voting booths had closed in California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends in his 17th-floor suite and drifted off into a long-awaited deep sleep at midnight...
...common understanding and agreement" at the summit, she then ticked off a list of conservative economic positions as the basis of unity for the leaders. Among them: that a strategy of economic recovery based on public-sector restraint and limited monetary growth "is the right one, and we intend to stick to it." Thatcher tossed in a plug for one of her favorite topics, "adapting our societies to an unprecedented pace of technological change...
...Five years from now when I turn over the presidency to my successor, I intend to hand over a new country," Duarte has vowed. Amid last week's joyous hoopla, that statement struck no one as recklessly hopeful...
Repair the Statue of Liberty [NATION, May 14]? Better to let it rot. If we fix it up, foreigners looking for a better life might actually believe that we intend to welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...
...closing, then, we are not talking about a job any student can do. I know I couldn't do it. That we are fortunate enough to have a hardworking, qualified undergraduate working for us should not be an issue. We intend to get the most qualified employee we can find. This year I think we did quite well. Gregg Lyss '85, Chairperson Undergraduate Council