Whatever the intention, the subsidy system helps the better-off much more than the poor.

ECONOMIST: Stunted and distorted | The

Whatever the nomenclature, the intention is threefold.

ECONOMIST: Development

Education Minister Leighton Andrews, who is now in charge of the Welsh government's language policy, published a new strategy in March with the intention of encouraging people to speak Welsh, whatever their level of fluency.

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The intention was that the 12-hour ultimatum should stand whatever the Council decided, for when it met the British representative had instructions that caused a British veto to be used there for the first time.

ECONOMIST: Splenetic Isolation | The

We learned today that they have now gone a bridge farther by announcing in their latest minutes that they will add a projection of the federal funds rate (forecast? policy intention? policy goal?) to the menu and start publishing those things (whatever they are, exactly) by individual members, not just the consensus.

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