Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What now is baffling the coalition, whose approximately 50 members are still committed, is how to shift its role. Once a protest intent on blocking construction, it now must become a relentless watchdog as MATEP becomes a reality. They talk of persuading residents to agree to regular monitoring of their health, particularly their respiratory conditions. But Ploss hasn't "the vaguest idea" what action, if any, the coalition will take in the coming months. "People are talking about selling their houses and moving. Most of them are the ones who have looked closely into the plant," she adds...
...claimed a monopoly on the desire for peace, ridiculing and condemning all other concerns as subterfuges for psychotic commitment to killing for its own sake. The systematic undermining of trust short-circuited a process of maturing. It fostered the illusions that all frustrations in the world reflected the evil intent of America's leaders, that what ailed America was a loss of its moral purity and that our difficulties could be set right by a return to simple principles...
...intent was apparently to project an air of innocence, as well as optimism about the eventual outcome. The effect, however, was odd, to say the least. As New Jersey's Democratic Senator Harrison Williams entered a Long Island, N.Y., federal courtroom for the somber business of being sentenced to prison, he was smiling. Through most of the nearly one-hour court session, he was smiling. He left the courtroom smiling. But when Judge George Pratt ordered him to spend three years behind bars (out of a maximum of 15) and pay a $50,000 fine, Williams showed a deeper...
...Tunica, Mississippi, a 1980 census showed a 73 percent Black population; however, all five county-supervisors were white. In Dallas County. Alabama, whites have held all four of the county commissionerships for the past 80 years, though the county is 45 percent Black. Under the intent standard, these abuses are virtually untouchable. A plaintiff would have the staggering burden of proving that an at-large election system deliberately discriminated against him. In many cases this task would be nearly impossible since it would require reading the minds of long-dead officials...
White House aides are amused at the proposition that Bush has established his own cells within the Administration. Indeed, Bush was so intent on proving he was a team player that he has tiptoed around the appointments process, to the dismay of his longtime supporters. Although Bush last week clumsily tried to deny that he once called Reaganomics "voodoo economics," the fact that he made the statement in 1980 is viewed by the right as proof that the Vice President is not a true believer. However, the fact that he tried to deny saying it may be even more interesting...