Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Saturday-morning cartoon and kiddy shows, including The Jetsons, G.I. Joe, Super Mario Brothers and Leave It to Beaver, are "educational" in nature. In a report prepared by the Center for Media Education in Takoma Park, Maryland, consumer groups charge that these stations are skirting the law's intent to upgrade children's TV programming by lumping all programs into vague categories such as "programs specifically designed for children." As it is, says the report, 60% of the scarce news shows for children that do appear are relegated to time slots between...
...guilt as an inducement to lie. The S & L debacle and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the late 1980s involved exquisitely complex patterns of lies and deceptions. These fiascos harmed thousands of investors and left taxpayers with a staggering bill to pay, but that was not their intent. The purpose of the lies told in these massive scams was to enrich the perpetrators...
...will not comment on whether he has visited the Widener stacks with carnal intent. Nobody will testify to his temporary presence on John Harvard...
...kiss through layers of cloth in The Lovers (1928), or The Titanic Days (1928), his image of attempted rape, in which the bodies of the terrified woman and the attacking man are fused together as in a grim photographic overlap. Often his color is extremely beautiful, though the viewer, intent on the visual conundrums, may not at first notice how powerful and tender it can be. But as his friend Louis Scutenaire wrote, "Magritte is a great painter. Magritte is not a painter." He had no interest in what the French called la belle matiere, and when he did essay...
...notion of intent, though hard to prove, opens up avenues that were not available to the state prosecutors. Federal attorneys will be able to introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...