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Burns indicated that the Fed's easing will be small and gradual. The board, he pledged, will not "stand idly by and watch the current adjustment degenerate into a recession." But he added, in a typical Burns hedge: "Neither do we intend to let excess demand for goods and services burst out anew...
Bernhard, a pitcher in high school, will be tried as a left-handed relief pitcher. Park does not intend to use him more than a few innings at a time...
...some time and in some place, Americans must decide as to whether they intend to have their decisions, indeed their lives, ruled by a violent minority. We are but one bank, but we have decided to take our stand in Isla Vista...
...knocked much of the paint off her freshly decorated hall and kitchen while lugging in appliances. She is now trying to find pieces from various boxes. One box labeled "garage-attic-basement misc." contains nothing of the sort; it holds sheets and a crushed lampshade. Mrs. McCulloch does not intend to respond to a card from the company asking for comments on the move...
PRESUMABLY Marshall McLuhan did not intend to spread alarm when he described communications networks as "extensions of our physical and nervous systems." What happens when that central extension, the telephone network, shows symptoms of a nervous breakdown? For a distressing number of months, it has. When there should be a dial tone, all too often there is only silence or a snap, crackle and pop. Sometimes a call connects to someone else's conversation. The epitaph for much of 1970 America could be "Sorry, the number that you have dialed is not a working number...