Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system be improved? Only if the public elects large numbers of leaders intent upon making their mark by streamlining government. (The chances of that are slim.) The voters at large have almost no control over the advisers and administrators drawing federal salaries, let alone the single-minded lobby groups that build up private fiefdoms within the Congress and the executive branch. Bitter about his own inability to effect major changes during his brief tenure in Washington, the author doesn't push his analysis much past interpreting the motives of his former colleagues. In fact, now that he has abandoned public...
...other recruits have become more renowned than the Refrigerator and have carried more weight. James Cofer and Terry Minor, former high school teammates in Knoxville, Tenn., reneged on the "letters of intent" they signed at Clemson. Then, after fighting for their release from these standard agreements, they went public with allegations they had been paid for their signatures. Now Cofer and Minor are suing Clemson
...letter of the law is clear, and that is what referee Dana Hennigar decided to invoke, intent be damned. "Anytime you hit anything above the neck--that's a major penalty," admitted Harvard coach Billy Cleary after last night's loss. "It's in the book...
...Historian Kenneth Baker points out in the catalogue to this show, Morandi chose an art that could not frighten or persuade, as the mass-media imagery of Italy was intent on doing; his struggle was "to purge representation of its manipulative potential so that painting . . . might be carried on without cynicism or apology." Modestly, insistently, Morandi's images try to slow the eye, asking it to give up its inattention, its restless scanning, and to give full weight to something small...
...think there's a fairly good chance of getting it stayed," Sullivan said, adding that new evidence on the original intent of the city council to block tenant purchases would be presented...