Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intent was to protect to the extent possible all the people in the work force, AIDS victims and non-AIDS victims," Healy said. He added that a new policy will be formed after consultation with several anti-discrimination agencies to carry out those aims...
...reason was familiar and chilling: a murderous blackmailer intent on intimidating a corporation by poisoning its products. A man calling himself Gary telephoned ABC News claiming he had placed 25 tainted Contac capsules in stores throughout the country. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings tipped off SmithKline while judiciously holding the story off the air. The next day, SmithKline got more calls, apparently from the same man. All capsules were unsafe, he said, and he wanted to get them off the shelves...
Nevertheless, each new round of repression confirms for many in Managua and abroad that the Sandinistas are intent on gaining absolute control. "The state of emergency is part of a master plan to get obedience from the population," says Jaime Bengochea of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (COSEP). "Our rights never existed except on paper." Critics report that their phones have been tapped, their offices ransacked, their lives threatened. Hundreds of people have been detained, many of them suspected of collaborating with the enemy in contra-infiltrated areas. Like Reagan, many Nicaraguans and outside observers believe that such repressive...
...actors playing Joyce and Lenin are completely wrong for their roles. What their actual talent level is I don't know, but it isn't high enough to make their characters believable. Perhaps the intent was comic incongruity between historic image and actual person, but it doesn't work...
Much harder to pity, or even tolerate, is the professor who wants to lecture. This young, ambitious person is so intent on making a name for him or herself that he or she is determined to say something new--anything new. Sitting in class listening to this scholastic yuppie say "...the Bible thus foreshadows life, for just as Hagar is chosen by God to give birth to Ishmael, so will Sammy Hagar be chosen to sing for Van Halen. However, whereas the seed of Hagar will flee before the tribe of David, David Lee Roth will do his own album...