Word: intention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter had two purposes. The first was to inform the Harvard community of the excessive violence used in the police actions and to suggest that there were more humane ways of enforcing its law. The second intent was to link their violence to a greater, more pervasive ill: the omnipresent homophobia infecting so much of our culture...
...buying off his critics? Why should Harvard be any better than, say, the University of Wisconsin? Or, for that matter, General Motors? Should Harvard maintain a higher standard of conduct simply because it is Harvard? I am perfectly willing to believe that the leaders of this University are more intent the on extending their own influence than in advancing the causes of truth, justice and freedom. So are the leaders of almost every other large bureaucratic organization in this country--notably the federal government...
...harassment codes are forgetting another important detail: the reason why the codes have come into vogue. Incidents of racial violence on college campuses--physical violence--have risen sharply in the 1980s. It is in reaction to the increase in violent acts that college administrations are passing the codes. The intent is to deter some of the violence by cutting it off at its source: verbal discriminatory harassment that aims to disrupt rather than contribute to the educational environment...
...where do we go from here? Mr. De Klerk has not got rid of apartheid. Much of what he has said is a declaration of purpose, of intent. Therefore we will see that sanctions remain in place until certain conditions are met which we believe to be crucial to helping the forces of negotiation...
CLEAN AIR. Congress is intent on passing clean-air legislation that is more stringent, more expensive and less market oriented than the proposal Bush submitted last year. Asked whether he can afford in an election year to veto any clean-air bill, the President told TIME, "Yes, because I'll be talking about jobs and a person's right to make a living ((as well as)) my commitment to clean...