Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...space; a rigidly circumscribed, deeply impoverished and grossly ignored Black community; a non-existent municipal government that was in effect run by one of the nation's most outspoken racists, Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo, chairman of the obscure Senate District Committee beginning in 1944; a financial elite far more intent on improving their social status by flattering their fellow hob-nobbers than on making a productive contribution to the war effort...
Jackson, vowing to "never surrender," is intent on changing the governor's mind. Jackson is asking for unprecendented presence in the campaign, for a liberalized campaign platform and for an almost complete integration of his campaign staff with Dukakis'. And how Dukakis decides to act on Jackson's requests will say a lot about how Jackson is perceived by the soon-to-be Democratic nominee...
Although Dukakis has not reversed outright any of the dovish positions he took in the primaries, his emphasis is different these days. He seems intent on preventing George Bush from portraying him as the purveyor of a McGooey isolationism -- as the Vice President eagerly hopes to do. So instead of stressing, as he did in Iowa, his belief that the U.S. already has far more nuclear weapons than it needs, the new Dukakis emphasizes his support for the doctrine of deterrence. He even praises Ronald Reagan for his emphasis on human rights while in Moscow...
Since then, the U.S. has promulgated new, hair-trigger "rules of engagement" for the gulf. They specify that commanders need not wait until their forces are fired upon before unloosing their own weapons. All they need is some convincing indication that a ship or plane is approaching with hostile intent. Doubtless influencing Rogers' decision was the fact that his ship had just been engaged in hostilities. Following reports of Iranian speedboat attacks on two neutral ships, the Vincennes sent a helicopter to investigate. The Iranians fired on the helicopter, triggering a firefight that Flight 655 had the foul luck...
Despite the large number of contenders, the Governor is intent on keeping the process sober and thorough. There will be no Mondale-like press conferences at the end of the driveway; no skeletons left in the closet, as with McGovern's selection of Senator Thomas Eagleton; and no leaks. Aspirants have been asked to turn over everything but dental records to a claque of half a dozen aides who pore over the documents in isolation two floors above campaign headquarters in a red brick building on the fringe of Boston's Combat Zone. They are called the Manhattan Project...