Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearings, when pressed by Sen. Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.) as to whether the Administration's policies were illegal or merely "contemptuous," Shattuck said the policies were in fact a violation of the law and congressional intent...
...decision drew predictable protests from organized labor. "It's outrageous," fumed William Winpisinger, president of the International Association of Machinists. "This was never Congress's intent." U.A.W. President Owen Bieber forecast more strikes and less conciliation. Said he: "It won't make sense for a union to grant adjustments to an ailing employer on Monday, merely to have that revised agreement torn up on Tuesday...
...these developments have brought to the fore controversy surrounding the principles, which were first developed in 1977 and since refined by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister and board member of the GM company. The general intent behind the principles is to help Black South Africans economically by making sure companies follow certain fair-labor practices...
Encouraged by the warm reception she received during a visit to Hungary earlier this month, Britain's Thatcher was also intent on improving relations with the Soviet Union. In her meeting with the leadership, she managed to strike a subtle balance between the stiffly formal Kremlin protocol and the more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford...
Judging from Chernenko's speech, the new Soviet leader seems intent on doing just what his predecessor did?at least for the immediate future. In the area of foreign policy, Chernenko does not appear to be any more willing than Andropov to resume nuclear arms talks. Nor does he seem to be eager for an early summit meeting with Reagan. Given Chernenko's limited experience with diplomacy and defense, he will probably rely on the advice of two Politburo veterans, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Ustinov. Richard Thomas, director of the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas...