Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fearful of the political repercussions of deflation, Illia broke off talks in Washington and called his emissaries back to Buenos Aires, explaining through Economy Minister Juan Carlos Pugliese that the government could not accept the terms laid down by IMF "without prejudicing its own plans for the gradual deceleration of the inflationary process." And on that ominous note, the regime last week devalued Argentina's once proud peso from 151 to 171 to the dollar...
...must first usurp the rights of men and finally the prerogatives of God." And occasionally he sounds a warning note worth heeding amid the euphoria of the Great Society. "I believe that once you let someone decide what's good for you, you've got to accept it," he declares. "The ultimate end of this sort of surrender is totalitarianism...
Better Rapport. Churches occasionally are reluctant to accept older ministers, concerned that they may be ready to retire by the time they have mastered their new profession. In the 1964 entering class at Maine's Bangor Theological Seminary, a school that specializes in training men with "delayed vocations," one student was in his 60s, another was 52. Yet nonclerical experience often gives these men a rapport with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston...
...From there he would move on to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, mostly Negro Tuskegee Institute, and Auburn University. Cancelling a vacation and a European tour, Billy will conduct a ten-day crusade in Montgomery in June. During October, he will crusade in Waco and Houston. Striving to accept speaking engagements in parts of the South where he has seldom before preached, he has juggled his schedule to fit in a speech to the Mississippi Baptist Convention. "I want to stay in touch with those fellows," he says...
...Paul's Misogynism. Pike believes that "there is no viable theological objection to women in holy orders," and it is an argument that is slowly but surely taking force in Christianity. More than 70 U.S. Protestant churches accept women clerics; within the past decade, women have been ordained ministers in the Lutheran state churches of Denmark and Sweden and in a dozen Reformed and Evangelical churches of France, Germany and Eastern Europe...