Word: intent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yakov Levy, describing a history of problems in the Middle East, told a crowd of more than 120 students that his main intent was "to show how complex the situation...
...However, HRZL [Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist League] Co-Chair Shawn Aster '92-'93 said the intent was to 'express solidarity with the state and people of Israel...
...With hindsight, I think some of us misjudged Chinese objectives with respect to the extension of Chinese power. We thought there was considerable evidence China intended to extend its hegemony across Southeast Asia and perhaps beyond, but I'm not at all sure now that was their intent...
...which the ecological consequences of battle have been a focus of world attention even as the fighting takes place. Yet that very awareness multiplies the sense of horror and demoralization caused by Saddam's callous acts of environmental terrorism. In his quixotic madness, the Iraqi strongman seems intent on waging what he calls "the mother of all battles" against the mother of us all -- the earth itself...
Clearly, the Pentagon is intent on making the public think that this is a sanitary war in which all bombs go down the air shafts of their targets and no one gets their faces or limbs blown off. But without a more accurate depiction of the war, the American public cannot make informed choices. If our government wants us to go to war, the least we can expect from it in return is to see the reality of the war and not the government-sanitized version...