These places, which sprung up on the edges of campuses like dandelions after a spring rain, were the meeting places where students, professors, townspeople, out-of-town academics and other terribly interesting folk would meet, by intention or chance, and talk and learn from one another.
Our impulse to speed up and take action is driven by our intention to achieve, but our go-to approach action and transaction is often futile when dealing with increasing chaos and complexity.
This uneasy tension is exacerbated by the perceived intention of American liberals to reunite the Western world by making America more like contemporary Europe more top-down, more bureaucratic, more official, more collectivist, more rationalist.
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The decidedly un-Dominican Kim Jong-nam explained his travels by stating his intention to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
In January Mr Barrett shocked Canada's financiers by announcing his intention to merge Montreal with Royal Bank, Canada's largest bank.
Their growing determination not to accept it has been evidenced by the announced intention of six republics not to sign it so far.
Fuller Company, an American adhesives manufacturer that had built up reputational capital by declaring its intention to be a good corporate citizen and making philanthropic donations.
President Obama concluded the call by conveying his intention to visit Pakistan in 2011 and personally welcomed President Zardari to visit the United States in the coming year.
Shortly after the Annapolis conference fails, and no doubt in a bid to buck up its standing with the Arab world, the US may well stand by its stated intention to recognize the independence of Kosovo.
"By signaling his intention to restore U.S. funding for UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, President Barack Obama is signaling his re-engagement with the international community on the critical challenge of improving reproductive health around the world, " UN Foundation President Timothy Wirth said.
Only by holding firmly to a prudent, responsible course on both the micro and the macro levels including, if necessary, by asserting an intention to employ sanctions against companies breaching existing COCOM guidelines can the United States hope to preserve this organization.
This entire sequence...suggests an intention by the OIC to ensure that the expansion of jurisdiction was kept a secret until the President and Ms. Lewinsky had given testimony under oath and (if Ms. Lewinsky could be so persuaded) she had been enlisted to do surreptitious taping.
Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.
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This public killing is being seen as the latest demonstration by Islamists of their intention to impose their strict interpretation of Sharia law.
Yet we are likely to see a massive housing bailout, even though many housing purchases made before the bubble burst were by speculators whose sole intention was to buy and flip.
It did so by announcing four years ago its intention to convert the country's navy to a fleet powered by electric motors.
Ms Gildernew questioned the cost of hiring consultants and was reminded by Jim Wells that Mr McGimpsey's intention to hold a review, headed by William McKee, had not been revealed to the committee.
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According to precedent, residency is determined by an individual's intention to be a resident.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have any intention of abiding by these restrictions.
Japan feels less threatened, however, by Iran's apparent intention to build nuclear weapons.
James left his family at 7:45AM with the intention to return by 1:00PM that day, but obviously has not yet returned.
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This latter intention is accompanied by all the easy moral prestige of multiculturalism, so it finds its champions on the erstwhile Left.
The West has been particularly dazzled by Gorbachev's announced intention to effect dramatic, unilateral reductions in the size and character of the Soviet military.
As hours of recently recorded speeches of Yasir Arafat clearly demonstrate, he has no intention of abiding by a peace with Israel or any of the commitments he has make to our Government.
By reaching out with authentic intention, of being of service to those that have sacrificed so much for us over the past decade, doors have opened and relationships have emerged that we never would have discovered if not for our initiative.
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"If the intention was to transform the industry by bringing in Ian MacGregor from the British Steel corporation - famous for cutting jobs - if the intention was to cut jobs and reduce the industry... the challenge is how do you actually protect the communities from the impact and it's that bit that was missing, " he said.
That's fine by Higgins, who has every intention of building, not negotiating with his competitor.
But it's fairly clear by now that Washington has no intention of paying retail.
No one should, by the way, discount their intention to obtain nuclear weapons.
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