Word: intention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...differing life-styles -- hence their hostility to drugs and casual sex and their sympathy for the goals of decency-obsessed media baiters like the Rev. Donald Wildmon or Senator Jesse Helms. The other group, Jasper says, consists of cause-oriented activists, such as animal rightists and environmentalists, who are intent on making people think about the consequences of letting endangered species die out or contaminating the atmosphere with hair spray...
Majestic phrases like "due process of law" require parsing. Even the strictest constructionists would accept that the natural-law thinking of the 18th century is useful in divining the framers' "original intent...
...Because in the interim, it has become clear to even the woolliest that nuclear weapons are not the threat. The threat is the intent to use them...
Slovenia was no more reasonable than the federal government in its demands. Intent on seizing all the arms from the troops sent into the republic and on publicly humbling the army, the republic's government scuttled the first cease-fire by demanding that departing forces turn over all weapons except personal arms before retiring to their barracks. "Provocateurs," said a Western diplomat stationed in Belgrade...
...another purpose (say, tax collection). Another guiding precept is that unique numerical identifiers -- like Thailand's ID numbers -- should be avoided because they make dossier preparation temptingly easy. That is why the American Civil Liberties Union gets so upset when a Social Security number is used beyond its original intent...