Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXAMPLE, there is nothing revealing in the excerpt about Watergate. It is just a lame construction of already published events in such a way as to absolve Nixon of sinister motives and serious criminal intent. He explains his involvement as passive and oddly disinterested, claiming to have known nothing of the planning and little of the extent of the coverup. He quotes his diary to show he was relaxing on Bob Abplanalp's island on a date by which both Bob Haldeman and Charles Colson have testified they had notified him of events. The tone is set for a revision...
...necessary, to end up with no sales at all. But some lawmakers objected to his tactics. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who will be the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that the "linking" of the three items "violates the intent and spirit of congressional review procedure...
Mindful of that sentiment, both Byrd and O'Neill urged Carter to delay presenting the package to Congress. The President at first seemed adamant. At his midweek press conference he warned that if Congress rejected part of the package, then "my intent is to withdraw the sales proposal altogether." His reasoning, as Press Secretary Jody Powell explained later, was that if commitments to both sides were not honored, U.S. standing in the Middle East would be damaged...
...Saudi Arabia, the sale of the F-15, the most sophisticated jet fighter in the U.S. arsenal, is a test−not merely of Washington's intent to be evenhanded in the Middle East but, specifically, of whether America is prepared to be a reliable friend. As Crown Prince Fahd explains it, the Saudis' relationship with the U.S. involves a basic tradeoff: oil for security. They are prepared to hold down oil prices, expand their productive capacity and help protect the dollar−all of which are vital to the U.S. and its Western allies. In return, they...
...cast manages generally to overcome the mood-change by keeping the tone as lighthearted as possible and by stressing funny one-liners ("his pockets were full of persuasive arguments," is offered as an explanation for human fickleness). But frequently, the buffoonery seems to go against the playwright's intent. In addition, the effort to maintain a certain amount of continuity between acts requires a rather confusing set of blood-ties between characters; at times it would be helpful if the Loeb provided a geneology of the sort that comes tucked inside long Russian novels...