Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only by its circumspection, the President's address seemed to rebut speculation that he would not seek another term. Rather, Lyndon Johnson was clearly intent on showing his critics that he has a steady hand on the controls at a difficult period in U.S. history. It is, in Johnson's words, "a time of testing, a time of transition"-for himself no less than for the nation...
...reasons for the foreigners' return start with Castello Branco. While he has slowed but by no means halted inflation (the cost of living is up 39.5% this year), he has demonstrated an encouragingly tough-minded intent that investors do not think will be reversed. The cruzeiro's exchange rate has been held at 2,200 to the dollar for more than a year, taxes are being collected more diligently, credit has been tightened, and the constant wage increases have been slowed. Moreover, his persuasive economics minister, Roberto Campos, has beat bushes abroad convincing hesitant investors that...
TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the broad seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess...
...usual manner. Since government by committee tends to pall on hyperactive politicians of the German sort, clashes are sure to arise both within each party and between them. Two of the ministries that went to the Christian Democrats, for example, will be manned by bitter enemies who are intent on each other's political demise...
...longer have to scramble for the necessities of life, West Germans are taking another look at themselves and their role in the world. Having gorged themselves materially in successive waves of Fresswelle (eating), Autowelle (auto buying), Wohnungswelle (home buying), Reisewelle (traveling) and even Edelfresswelle (delicacies), they now seem intent on quite a different course: a neue Stimmungswelle?a new national mood. They want to correct the world's mistaken notion that only a fat German is a happy one, which they feel has encouraged others to ignore Germany's pressing problems and national frustrations. As Willy Brandt cries...