Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, the swimmers were carefully fucling their competitive fires because they were intent on avenging last year's loss to the Big Red, the only defeat to Cornell in the history of Harvard women's swimming...
...trouble dates from last July, after New Zealand's new Prime Minister, David Lange, 42, led his Labor Party to victory with, among other promises, the intent to ban port calls by nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels. The proscription applied to all foreign shipping, but it really meant U.S. naval vessels. At first it appeared that the matter could be compromised or finessed without great difficulty. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz told Lange in Wellington last July that the U.S. would refrain from sending any naval vessels to New Zealand ports for six months or more. According...
...people aware, so aware that they can't not act," activist Jenny Goodman says. The intent of these core activists is to make fellow students personally feel each issue because, as Katz explains, "the more likely they are to become involved...
...congressional critics, Weinberger and the Pentagon are simply intent on buying every weapon the generals and admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...Soviet technological progress during his six years out of office. "I was astounded," Weinberger told Writer Theodore White, a Harvard classmate. "Their buildup had gone so far and so fast, and all of it was in offensive, not defensive, weapons." Weinberger concluded, and still believes, that the Soviets are intent on "world domination." Weinberger had no trouble conveying the urgency of his concern to the one man in a position to do something about it, Ronald Reagan. Not only had Reagan campaigned on a platform calling for a major strategic buildup in U.S. military might, he had known and trusted...