Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoffman practiced it more dexterously than anyone else, even as one of the Chicago Eight, the group of radical activists, including Tom Hayden and Black Panther Bobby Seale, who were tried for plotting to disrupt the convention. Hoffman and four others were found guilty of crossing state lines with intent to riot, a conviction later overturned...
...however, has little interest in selling out. The company's arsenal includes a rare bipartisan alliance of Minnesota leaders, who last week declared their intent to send Davis packing. Said Governor Rudy Perpich: "This will be all-out war as far as the state of Minnesota is concerned." The politicians have already begun drafting measures that would include empowering state officials to veto hostile deals that would cause an adverse economic impact...
...result of the American colonial experiment was trickle-down democracy. Concentrating on the practicalities of ruling the archipelago, U.S. viceroys allied themselves with the elite who held the rest of the country in feudal servitude. (Among the descendants of that elite: President Aquino.) The masses followed their masters who, intent on preserving their privileges, accommodated their American overlords. In turn, Filipinos integrated the Americans, turning them into ritual kin. Americans became big white brothers, inextricably bound to look after their little brown brethren...
...varsity hockey team raised its rhubarb and whipped the Saints of St. Lawrence, 5-1, with a powerful cannon-ball offense. The profligate Saint fans yelled assorted profanities and taunted the varsity with some malicious intent before Ed Presz advanced to the goal and proceeded to score a goal of ethereal beauty in the opening minutes of this pugilistic contest...
Bush, however, seems content to ignore any pressing long-term issues in order to remain in office. He seems more intent on winning reelection than on improving American society...