Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Atwell, vice president of the ACE, said last night that the concessions would not alter the intent or effectiveness of the plan. "I don't think that the essence of [the proposal] was seriously weakened, but at the same time it does meet the objections of the NCAA...
...says his father encouraged his football efforts but didn't pour on the pressure. When the time came to apply to college, he promised his parents he'd visit three Ivy schools as well as three other universities. Vignali almost went for the big time, signing a letter of intent to accept a scholarship from the University of Minnesota...
...gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has added a cubit to her stature, she will never be quite the same again...
Through the streets of Saigon, and in the dark approaches to dozens of towns and military installations throughout South Viet Nam, other Vietnamese made their furtive way, intent on celebrating only death. After the merrymakers had retired and the last firecrackers had sputtered out, they struck with a fierceness and bloody destructiveness that Viet Nam has not seen even in three decades of nearly continuous warfare. Up and down the narrow length of South Viet Nam, more than 36,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers joined in a widespread, general offensive against airfields and military bases, government buildings, population...
There are not many revelations in this television history, nor were there likely to be: the footage was drawn chiefly from public records and from the recollections of figures whose views are well known. The intent is to tell why the U.S. went to Viet Nam, how it lost a sense of purpose in being there, and how and why it left. The scope of the six-year, $4.6 million project is impressive: the production team obtained 94 hours of film-200,000 feet-from archives in eleven countries and conducted 5,000 transcript pages' worth of interviews...