Word: intention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether it is due to humorous or malicious intent, failed friendship or failed love, an open account or a known password, it is important to remember that e-mail is not as private as it may appear...
...stepfather Raymond, host of a local cable shopping show, was on the dining-room floor, bleeding from what would be described as self-inflicted wounds. According to the district attorney's office, Marlene Stumpf "suffered a large cutting wound to the entire circumference of her neck," resulting from "an intentional intent to decapitate the victim." Raymond Stumpf, charged with first-degree murder, told police from his hospital bed that he "just went wild...
Zelnick said that affirmative action perverts the intent of lawmakers in the 1960s who enacted federal legislation designed to eliminate all forms of racial inequality. By equating race with a form of merit, Zelnick added, racial-preference programs have sown the seeds of civil disharmony and racial strife in American society...
...Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," curated by Francis Naumann and Beth Venn and now running at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is an interesting show of what is, ultimately, a spiky but fairly thin subject. Dadaism--its name made of baby-talk syllables, its intent to disorient bourgeois expectations of culture by any means possible--was a short-lived but fecund movement born and raised in Europe in the century's teens. It was more like a tiny religion than an art event, with a proselytizing spirit, a code of behavior, a core...
...billion in Medicare spending over a period of five years. Wary of the President's batting score beating the GOP to the punch on their issues, Republicans immediately began questioning the overture and in some cases labeling it nothing more than a political sham. Clinton, who seems more intent than ever in moving towards the center and banishing the reformist stance he held early in his first term, defended his proposal, saying it was not an attempt to steal GOP thunder but a sincere attempt to approach their budgetary demands. Reemphasizing his desire to work with the GOP, he added...