Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferation of manuals romanticizing death troubles social workers and doctors who are intent on preventing suicide among healthy people, as well as those clergymen who oppose suicide for any reason at all. The worst offender is France's Suicide: Operating Instructions, by Claude Guillon and Yves Le Bonniec, a pair of anarchists who, with ineffable Gallic logic, have equated the act of suicide with revolt against the established order. Their book, which explains how to forge doctors' prescriptions for lethal drugs, has attracted more than 100,000 French readers and has provoked denunciations by scores of physicians...
Roosevelt Wilson, athletic director at Florida A&M University says that the changes will not have a positive result. "I think the intent to raise academic standards for student athletes was a noble idea, but the proposition itself is no good," he adds. "I am terribly disappointed that some of our finest educators would take a standard as arbitrary as the SAT and use it as a limit when there is no empirical evidence that it shows how well a student will perform...
Your withdrawal of Bloom County on Monday represents a casual disregard for the fundamental issues of journalistic responsibility and a crude and apparently deliberate misreading of the intent of the strip itself...
...working days of the time that their children (age 17 or under) receive prescription contraceptives. In New York, U.S. District Court Judge Henry F. Werker called the Government's arguments defending the rule "fatuous" and "mere sophistry." He asserted that the proposed regulation "contradicts and subverts the intent of Congress," which was to provide funds to combat "the problems of teen-age pregnancy." And in a similar case initiated in Washington by Planned Parenthood, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Flannery said, "It is abundantly clear . . . that many teen-agers will be deterred from attending these clinics...
...guerrillas were intent on repeating a psychological triumph of three weeks ago, when they occupied the virtually undefended provincial center of Berlin for three days, then retreated before the belated arrival of Salvadoran army reinforcements. U.S. officials in El Salvador discounted the showy guerrilla actions as armed propaganda exercises, producing results that were militarily worthless even though psychologically valuable. Nonetheless, as a senior American official admitted, "the guerrillas are getting better at what they're doing. They have better coordination, better timing between their operations...