Word: intentionally
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Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...skill and imagination to hit high wedge shots, low ones, shots with backspin." Nicklaus, in contrast, feels he never developed first-rate shots from off the green because he didn't start playing golf seriously until age 10, when he was already big for his age and intent on smashing the ball...
...chance to furnish his name and about $600,000 to buy a piece of the Texas Rangers, which he sold nine years later for $14 million. His mother still didn't think he was up to winning a Governor's race, and she said so, but W. was intent on trying in 1994. It was all the richer that his opponent would be Ann Richards, who had managed in 1988 to take the poisonous cartoon of the Bushes and serve it up to a national audience. "Poor George," she had cooed at the Democratic National Convention...
...overwhelming majority, the Riverkeeper board supported the staff decision. Wegner paid for his crime of smuggling the eggs of the cockatoo (which is not a rare bird, as you claimed) with three years in prison. He is genuinely remorseful and intent on reforming his life. Robert Boyle's decision to leave his position as president of Riverkeeper came after he was informed that the board would remove him from that office for reasons unrelated to Wegner's hiring. Boyle is an icon of the environmental movement...
...Protests, In Sum Quoth the Times: "Devotees of lively political protest, a fading art in recent decades, had something to cheer for and against today as an eclectic, ragtag assortment of causes snaked and howled through the heart of this city, giving pause to Republican conventioneers intent on decorum...