Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surely this description is unfair to the barnyard swine, who, for all their disgusting habits, do not steal food from starving children and then lie to escape responsibility for the resulting sickness and death. That has been the thrust of the Reagan Administration's policy, which Graham seems intent upon seeing continued...
...ridden Soviet economy. Citing improved industrial production, which grew by 4% last year, compared with 2.8% in 1982, he affirmed that "a change for the better" was under way in the national economy. "The most important thing," wrote Andropov, "is not to lose the tempo and the general positive intent to get things going...
...capital of the Persian Empire, the center of command for the Greek cities along the Lonian coast. The city's wealth and importance was maintained because of its strategic location on the royal road to Susa, a corridor of exchange between East and West. Xerxes mustered his armies there intent on marching into Greece...
...keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon and by supporting factions opposed to the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future. By fueling the raging rebellion within the Palestine Liberation Organization against Chairman Yasser Arafat, Syria is intent on seizing control of the Palestinian movement. Finally, by bullying and cajoling its Arab neighbors, Syria is building what it hopes will be a united front to reach its ultimate objective: a comprehensive, made-in-Damascus solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...major league baseball and General Electric, calls it "the most dramatic new ingredient to collective bargaining that we have seen in more than a decade." Labor officials denounce the tactic as union busting. Says Bruce Simon, general counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was not the intent of the framers of the bankruptcy code to enable renegades like Continental Air Lines to wage eco nomic warfare by destroying our system of collective bargaining." The Supreme Court is now considering the issue in a case involving a small New Jersey building supply company...