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...here in Washington." Just last week, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Greenspan essentially apologized for providing what Senator Paul Sarbanes called "a green light" for the 2001 tax cuts. "If that is the way it was interpreted, I missed it," Greenspan said of his support. "I did not intend it that...
...including the presidency his junior year. “Personally, I hate Harvard,” Weiler says. “It was too stuffy, too pretentious, too conservative. I have no Harvard clothing, have never given to the Harvard College Fund, and I don’t intend to. But I love BMF, and that’s what got me through...
...high school girl: "I intend to be President." A young woman: "I intend to go back to school." And a pregnant woman: "I intended to have a family ... but not this soon." Says an announcer: "Unintended pregnancies have risks. Greater risks than any of today's contraceptives. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wants you to have the facts. For your free booklet call 1-800-INTENDS...
...intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals [who will not be guilty of] disenfranchising the people through judicial activism," exulted the President in a speech to federal prosecutors in Washington last week. To end years of what he called "political action or social experimentation" from the bench, Reagan favors judges who follow the so-called doctrine of original intent, under which courts avoid rulings not clearly envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. In recent weeks Attorney General Edwin Meese has put signposts on these principles by attacking some pivotal Supreme Court decisions, including the Miranda ruling that...
...paint the U.S. as a nation teeming with human rights violations that run the gamut from unemployment to genocide. "They used to deal with human rights criticism by sitting in cold silence," says one senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now the new leadership are tough and embattled and intend to match our criticism with criticism of their...