Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social Security program [May 24], which now has millionaires picking up Social Security checks, has strayed far from F.D.R.'s intent to "ward off destitution" for the elderly. The system makes a mockery of what started out as a humane social program...
...particularly adept U.N. Ambassador. Yet, as the only woman in the Cabinet and as the most prominent neo-Conservative in the Administration, Kirkpatrick remains politically valuable. Unfortunately, the spat between her and Haig not only diminishes the effectiveness of both officials but raises substantial questions about the direction and intent of U.S. foreign policy...
...agents of the Public Security Bureau seemed intent on terrorizing their victim, and they succeeded. It was 1 a.m. when they marched into Peking's sprawling Friendship Hotel, where many foreigners working in China live. The police told room clerks to awaken American Teacher Lisa Wichser, 29, and tell her that an urgent telegram had arrived for her. When the petite, sandy-haired and somewhat sleepy Wichser appeared to claim it, she was handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being...
...failures by launching massive attacks against the U.S. policy of high-interest rates. It is therefore not necessary to possess the gift of foresight to predict that the meeting of the leaders of the seven most important democratic industrial nations will again end with wordy and reassuring declarations of intent, instead of with clear and forward-looking decisions...
...PEOPLE who run this University are intent on maintaining investments in companies in South Africa. The least they should be expected to do is make sure companies are abiding by these most minimal of guidelines, which, by the way, resemble the principles set forth in Bok's open letter in 1978 on South Africa...