Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Asians complain that they are frequently the victims of racial prejudice. Lucie Cheng, head of the Asian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, charges that administrators, intent on curbing the decline in white enrollment, are actually causing an unfair reduction in admissions of Asian students. It is a claim that officials stoutly deny. While Asians seeking to buy or rent homes suffer far less hostility than in the past, the tendency of many ethnic communities to settle in clusters still bothers some whites. During the rapid influx of Chinese into California's Monterey Park, for example...
...these children," says James Lyons, chief lobbyist for the National Association for Bilingual Education. But critics hotly question whether such expenditures are worthwhile. They also challenge the role of the Federal Government in favoring or heavily funding any particular method of instruction, much less sponsoring cultural-maintenance studies. "The intent of bilingual education has been distorted into a vehicle for a bicultural approach to education," says Robert Sweet, a member of the White House Office of Policy Development...
...Hughes merger is the latest in a dazzling series of moves that Smith, 59, has undertaken as part of a program to reshape his company. Since he took over the top job in 1981, the sandy-haired chairman has been intent on revamping GM into an agile performer that can compete successfully against the Japanese. To reach that goal, he has been creating more daring deals than any of his predecessors since the 1920s, when Alfred P. Sloan Jr. welded a jumble of companies into the modern...
With other artists of Longo's age, there are two main patterns of appropriation. The first is literal copying with intent to "deconstruct" the original, as done by Sherrie Levine, 38. Levine rephotographs photos by "classic" figures like Walker Evans and does small, exact, curiously loving copies of paintings by noted early modernists like Kasimir Malevich or Arthur Dove. The aim is to make people think about the status of originality; the work has a real and precise, if muted, aesthetic dimension...
Domestically, Papandreou has made clear that he is intent on increasing his ; personal power. Last March he shocked many of his countrymen when he abruptly withdrew his backing for a second term for Constantine Caramanlis, then the country's President. A conservative, pro-Western politician revered by most Greeks, Caramanlis had been a moderating influence on Papandreou. The Prime Minister replaced him with his own candidate, Leftist Christos Sartzetakis, and in coming weeks Parliament is expected to pass a constitutional amendment severely restricting the powers of the presidency. The presidential office's loss of power will be Papandreou's gain...