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Promoters deny any intent to deceive and argue that the canned music cuts costs on concerts. It also lets fans see "close to what they see on MTV," says Carl Freed, executive director of the North American Concert Promoters Association, plus "the added sparkle of live spontaneity." Oh, get real...
...products make more trash than yesterday's newspapers. Thus when New York's Suffolk County last week approved a bill requiring newspapers to use paper with a 40% recycled content by the end of 1996, the intent was unassailable. But there is a hitch: not enough mills are reprocessing the newsprint that readers already send to recycling centers...
...have heard the charges against my client. The prosecution argues that with malice aforethought he wrote a novel, Presumed Innocent, with the intent of willfully endangering the sleep habits and on-the-job efficiency of millions of innocent readers. Furthermore, it has been claimed that my client is remorseless. The government asserts that his new novel, The Burden of Proof, contains a plot even more fiendishly complicated and irresistible than its predecessor. The prosecution would have you believe that said novel, Exhibit B, constitutes an imminent threat to the public well-being and to the gross national product...
Durenberger has insisted that "it was never my intent to circumvent Senate rules for my own benefit. I made every effort to seek opinion from the appropriate bodies and from legal counsel." But the Senator may also have violated the law: use of a Senate building for commercial purposes like paid speeches is prohibited by the criminal code. The free limousine service he accepted will probably be regarded as taxable income. Backdating a document related to the sale of his Minneapolis condominium could constitute fraud...
...according to headmaster Robert Myette, the school had no intention of returning to protest the hostile environment it had so recently vacated. "It was always our intent to protect the students and the parents and the children so they wouldn't have to get involved in anything political," Myette said, shortly after the school's departure...