Word: intentions
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...commercials, shown only in Washington at a cost of about $100,000, have reaped millions of dollars' worth of free publicity through network television and print-media reproductions that have accompanied news stories about the flap. That probably was the intent all along...
...shrunken junk-bond market once provided, the investment bankers can no longer arrange the sort of blockbuster buyouts that produced breathtaking profits for Wall Street in the past decade. Instead, the erstwhile Masters of the Universe now rescue debt-laden companies and humbly take orders from corporate clients intent on acquisitions that will give them a competitive edge and help them survive the constrained 1990s...
...formed at the accident scene and flowed like quicksilver into the surrounding streets. Three hours later, Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, a visiting Hasidic scholar from Australia, was stabbed to death by a group of marauding black youths intent on avenging Cato's death. A 16-year-old was charged with the murder...
...just the people involved in the coup who were tainted; the institutions from which they came -- the party, army and KGB -- were also finally discredited last week. If Gorbachev is really intent on perestroika, which means restructuring, this is his golden moment. He can purge, break up and decentralize at will. In fact, he and the other leaders of the society will need virtually to reinvent the government and then find new people to staff...
Majestic phrases like "due process of law" require parsing. Even the strictest constructionists would accept that the natural-law thinking of the 18th century is useful in divining the framers' "original intent...