Word: intentionally
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Rippy was heavily recruited by Notre Dame, Princeton and Stanford, which sent him a letter of intent to accept a scholarship. But he says he believes "that if you were really good all through your life, when it came time for you to pass away, you would die and go to Harvard." So when his acceptance letter 'arrived from Byerly Hall, he headed straight for four years in heaven...
Building on this significant tradition. HGSE faculty agreed this year to appoint a new faculty member to augment our present resources so that we can develop one-year program on technology and education. The intent of the program is to prepare persons to work in school systems and help the schools make intelligent use of the plethora of new hardware and software currently being offered to them. Expertise, particularly intelligent skepticism about the new technologies, is in short supply, and we hope that such a program will both attract good students and be useful to them...
Moscow appeared intent on conveying its warning to West Germans through the left wing of the opposition Social Democratic Party and through East German Leader Erich Honecker. After two days of meetings with officials in Moscow, Egon Bahr, a West German defense expert and prominent Social Democrat, declared that "negotiations in Geneva will lose their meaning the minute the first new missiles are deployed." Honecker, meanwhile, sent a letter to Chancellor Kohl warning him of a "new ice age" in relations between the two Germanys unless the Bonn government strives "to put a stop to the arms escalation...
...networks all go for broke in the ratings. The timing is perfect: Nov. 20 is not only a Nielsen trifecta, it is less than two weeks before the Pershing Us are due to be installed in West Germany. More controversy, more publicity. Is the timing a reflection of political intent as well as business expediency? The network firmly denies it. The National Review editorializes that ABC is making "a $7 million contribution to the faltering campaign against the deployment of the Pershing II." So The Day After lumbers in carting more weight than Mother Courage...
...West the selection was widely hailed. President Reagan called the choice a "triumph of moral force over brute force." Pope John Paul II commended the Nobel committee for honoring the "intent to resolve the difficult problems of the world of the worker, and of Polish society, through the peaceful means of sincere dialogue and the reciprocal cooperation...