Word: intentionally
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Then there is intent. In September, California's Supreme Court ruled that a health-food store owner could not reject a job applicant if her fatness was the result of a faulty metabolism or a psychological systemic problem, but could if it was the person's fault. Imagine the cottage industry of fat experts, the obesity counselors, next door to the sexual-harassment ! counselors, at the office, trying to decide whether someone is fat by predisposition or from eating too much Haagen-Dazs...
...question of whether the guards thought thearea was for trash or for recycling is central tothe case, police officials say. While there isgenerally nothing wrong with removing items from atrash area, deliberately taking coolers from arecycling area might indicate an intent to steal...
...self-hatred, at other times sweet and naive, this complex performance of a tormented soul is both intelligent without being pretentious, and intelligently humane. Also of note are Kevin Collins as Johnny, the lover of Maynard Keynes (John Quentin), as well as of Wittgenstein himself--sort of. Jarman is intent upon portraying homosexual love both as it is manifested in Keyne's and Johnny's relationship and as it is denied and gradually, tacitly ackknowledged by Ludwig...
...Intent on returning home, however, those early exiles did not bother to assimilate into the American melting pot. Instead, they "acculturated," learning the American way of doing business while building a Spanish-speaking enclave unlike anything anywhere else in the U.S. "In Miami there is no pressure to be American," says sociologist Lisandro Perez, a Cuban-born immigrant and head of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. "People can make a living perfectly well in an enclave that speaks Spanish...
...glance with friendly persistence. You squirm and wiggle in your chair, brush imaginary lint from your shirt and tie your shoes a couple of times to avoid its forthrightness, but it's no use. Slowly, surely, you settle into your chair, turn to The Nose and submit to his intent eyes...