Word: intendment
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...Belaúnde's major preoccupations is agriculture. He has pushed through the country's first major agrarian reform bill, and it is one of the most sensible in Latin America. Belaúnde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger by opening vast new areas that have never...
...production association should get orders from its customer establishments on the basis of direct contract relations. These contracts are not the product of sporadic market fluctuations but are rather the embodiment and realization of centralized planning. That is why the new system will never lead to unemployment. We intend to assess the work of enterprises, first of all, by the way in which they carry out orders placed with them, and only then shall we make appraisal of and encourage their efficiency...
...alliance between the political machines of Big Daddy [Unruh] and Little Daddy [Yorty]" which "must be stopped and not allowed to take over city government, lock, stock and barrel." Yorty accuses Brown of helping Roosevelt. Brown denies it-sort of. "I have said time and time again that I intend to remain neutral in the race for mayor of Los Angeles," he says. "But I might add that Yorty is making it awfully difficult for me to do it." The Governor saves most of his critical energies for Unruh. Said he recently: "I have tried time and again...
...fleet. But Attassi hardly bolstered the Syrian government's case when he blurted out in court: "I was placed under torture by electricity as soon as I was arrested." Asked for com ment on Hafez' espionage drama, U.S. Ambassador Ridgway B. Knight declared: "I don't intend to get into a spitting match with a skunk"-surely one of the most pungent if least diplomatic remarks ever made by a diplomat...
...intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many, nor do we intend to turn them over to any man who will wastefully use them by destruction and leave to those who come after us a heritage damaged by just so much." So spoke the conservationist President, Teddy Roosevelt. Last week, as his tenth successor addressed himself to the modern problems of natural resources, the situation had become more dramatic; what needs saving now is not just nature, but man himself...