Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paintings were meant as a test for the community," he says, apologizing for his preachy tone. Of the original 17 paintings, 10 are now left. Following the first thefts, Tom returned to each painting, bolting them down as he went...
...trying to lay something on them," Tom says, as the truck pulls away. "I prefer the backdoor approach. The paintings are meant to say, "Welcome, Welcome." Your enjoyment is my reward. It's something as mundane and stupid as all that...
...first paintings, which carried the motto "Greed is not a virtue," were meant to counterbalance the obsessive drive for money which he felt had overtaken the country. "It was a gentle rebuke to all that crap," he says...
...financial markets are certainly important. So is consulting. But the capital and the shrewd advice are meant for somebody, and those people weren't around in great numbers...
...political agendas still burden AIDS policy. Secretary of Education William Bennett disseminated his department's first major recommendations on how to educate young people to avoid the disease. Bennett's 28-page pamphlet, cleared by the White House, is a model of moralizing and seems mainly to be meant as a challenge to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, an advocate of bluntly practical counsel. Bennett's booklet suggests that schools and parents "teach restraint as a virtue," downplays the use of condoms in sex and does not even mention the importance of clean needles if injecting drugs. Critics condemned Bennett...