Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shall we test citizens' knowledge before we give them political rights? That qualification was enforced by Southern governments during Reconstruction in the form of literacy acts to maintain the decrepitude of African-America. Liberals seem intent on spreading democracy throughout the globe. It is convenient for them, however, to ignore it at home...
...event, the amputations are reportedly being ordered by members of the ruling Baath Party rather than by religious courts, as called for in the Koran. Max Van Der Stoel, a Dutch human-rights monitor for the U.N. in Iraq, who has documented the abuses, says Hussein's real intent is to stifle popular opposition...
...freshmen come in with a greater sense of wanting to make their mark now,'' says Republican John Boehner of Ohio, class of '90, who in his first year helped push the House Bank scandal into high visibility. The G.O.P. first-timers are also intent on not repeating what they see as the mistake of the large number of Democratic freshmen who arrived with Clinton. Unlike the Watergate class of '74, who successfully reduced the power of seniority in the Democratic caucus, the class of '92 were too submissive when their demands for further reform were quashed by party chiefs...
...Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will permit commercial breeding,'' says a Royal Thai Forestry Department official. ``It will never be allowed.'' Still, proprietors of at least two other crocodile farms in Thailand have also purchased tigers with the intent to breed...
...seems likely because it's painless, term limits seem doomed because they're painful. There's no mystery here: those with power rarely relinquish it voluntarily. So while most members of Congress favor limits rhetorically, many are intent on ensuring that limits never become law. These members are like St. Augustine, who prayed to be given the virtue of chastity...