Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pence, shillings (12 pence) and pounds (20 shillings). As the empire slowly dissolved, most colonials seized the first chance to convert to a saner system. India, Pakistan and Ceylon switched to a decimalized rupee, Canada and Singapore to a decimalized dollar. Last week South Africa, whose Afrikaner government is intent on being as separate from Britain as it can be without taking itself out of the Commonwealth, replaced the pound with a decimal system of Rands and cents...
...consulted U.S. legislation in drafting the bill, and by and large, it establishes no more exacting standards than those which most U.S. states set for the companies they charter or which U.S. federal law sets for labor unions. The difference lies in the Canadian measure's avowedly nationalistic intent: to determine whether or not the Canadian branches of U.S. organizations are conducting themselves as good "corporate citizens" of Canada...
...village innocence doggedly preserved amid fleshpots and sophistries-although the fleshpots are rather lean and the sophistries baffling only to Griff, the simple mathematician. Lydia Kilmartin, Eng. Lit., "smashing figure," is probably the most sophisticated item at Warbeck College; her specialty is getting colleagues' names wrong with comic intent and making outrageous sexual remarks at inappropriate times...
...everyone expected, with high honors. Before the fact, though, there had been some promise of drama. Across the committee table. Rusk had to face Chairman William Fulbright-a man who could have had Rusk's job had he not been an Arkansas segregationist-and a squad of Republicans intent on making sure that the next State Secretary is not "soft" on Communism...
Last week, intent on proving that whatever capitalists can do, they can do better, the Russians announced plans for building a glass-walled annex to Moscow's 100-year-old National Hotel on Gorky Street, long considered by visitors to be one of Russia's poor best. This was just the beginning. Scheduled to rise beside the onion domes and red walls of the Kremlin is a huge, twelve-story block surmounted by a 20-story tower which, say the Russians, will be the largest hotel in Europe. It will contain 3,400 air-conditioned rooms, four lobbies...