Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaffirm what we take to have been the original idea and intent of the Ph.D.; namely, to train men to do advanced work of an original nature, without either maiming them spiritually or assuming that they are Methuselahs. Such training should obviously include a wide grasp of what is already known--we ought not, however, to require all knowledge--and it should equally include strict introduction to methods and tools...
...world-minded businessmen, apprehensive over a U.S. drift to protectionism, Nixon's proposals were a heartening reaffirmation of official intent to work for freer trade, a vital contribution to economic betterment of under-developed nations. In conference rooms and hotel corridors, businessmen vigorously debated a host of other issues that ranged from new investment incentives (see New Ideas for Investment) to German Banker Herman Abs's call for a Magna Carta of investors' rights (see The Capitalist Magna Carta...
While India's and Pakistan's inflation is due to their laudable, if overambitious, efforts to expand their industry. Indonesia can plead no such saving excuse. Indonesia has had a 59% cost-of-living rise since 1953. largely because the government is so intent on exterminating the last vestiges of colonialism that it is likely to destroy every profitable form of enterprise in the process. Indonesia has failed to pass a mining-and-oil-exploration law that would bring in new foreign companies, will offer no assurances against confiscation of new capital. Indonesia's legislature has ordered...
Every humanist theme and subject was prohibited. According to the communists, literature and other branches of the arts have only one task, to build communism by convincing and agitating the people. This intent was adequately expressed by the schematic characters in communist fiction. The chief characters were...
...girl was very intent now. "But if they went to the same schools for a while they wouldn't get behind, and everybody would be better...