Word: intention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million a year in timber revenue that the Federal Government returns to the county to help pay for public administration, roads and schools. At the local Ford dealership, the only owls that are welcomed are those made out of ceramic, which stand on the roofline warding off swallows intent on building nests under the eaves. Cars and trucks are not selling. Too much uncertainty. Says salesman Bruce Goetsch: "We survived without the dinosaur. What's the big deal about...
Promoters deny any intent to deceive and argue that the canned music cuts costs on concerts. It also lets fans see "close to what they see on MTV," says Carl Freed, executive director of the North American Concert Promoters Association, plus "the added sparkle of live spontaneity." Oh, get real...
...products make more trash than yesterday's newspapers. Thus when New York's Suffolk County last week approved a bill requiring newspapers to use paper with a 40% recycled content by the end of 1996, the intent was unassailable. But there is a hitch: not enough mills are reprocessing the newsprint that readers already send to recycling centers...
...have heard the charges against my client. The prosecution argues that with malice aforethought he wrote a novel, Presumed Innocent, with the intent of willfully endangering the sleep habits and on-the-job efficiency of millions of innocent readers. Furthermore, it has been claimed that my client is remorseless. The government asserts that his new novel, The Burden of Proof, contains a plot even more fiendishly complicated and irresistible than its predecessor. The prosecution would have you believe that said novel, Exhibit B, constitutes an imminent threat to the public well-being and to the gross national product...
Durenberger has insisted that "it was never my intent to circumvent Senate rules for my own benefit. I made every effort to seek opinion from the appropriate bodies and from legal counsel." But the Senator may also have violated the law: use of a Senate building for commercial purposes like paid speeches is prohibited by the criminal code. The free limousine service he accepted will probably be regarded as taxable income. Backdating a document related to the sale of his Minneapolis condominium could constitute fraud...