Word: acted
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...program, some 600 parents of 1,100 freshmen paid a small fee ($33) to learn about university life. Many are sending off their first child; some never went to college themselves. For all of them, says Administrator Arthur Goldberg, a 15-year veteran, "the orientation is partly an act of kindness. Parents have enormous levels of anxiety...
...miners want relief under an amendment to the 1977 Clean Air Act sponsored by Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum. This empowers the President, on an EPA recommendation, to force utilities to burn local coal and still meet pollution standards when other measures (like using out-of-state coal) would cause "economic disruption." Whoever finally wins, someone must lose: either electricity users, miners or the living, breathing residents of Ohio...
...Some of the Swiss Guards had to be rounded up from neighborhood cafes, and they finally mustered for an honor march across the square during John Paul's appearance on the balcony, but not?as is customary?before it. Vatican officials on the list of those who make the act of obedience to the Pope after the appearance were scattered, some at the beach. Such notables as Substitute Secretary of State Giuseppe Caprio scurried back just in time for Felici's announcement. They were not summoned into the Sistine Chapel for the obedience ritual, however. Like John XXIII, John Paul...
...favorite saint, Ryan says, is Venice's Pope St. Pius X, whom Luciani has often cited in his sermons. (Pius X is often remembered as the Pope who condemned Modernism, but that act was largely the work of his eminence grise Cardinal Merry del Val; Luciani, though, has revered Pius as the man who encouraged frequent reception of Communion and attendance at Mass.) The Venetian connection...
...black students demanded that the University take action against the 'Poonies, as they are affectionately, or at least commonly called. There was, as usual, a lot of talk, but they were not disciplined, as they form an independent organization. They were reprimanded, however, and they have toned down that act since. The Lampoon also features an incredibly humiliating competition for election to the staff, which culminates in "Fool Week," during which aspiring funnymen get to follow orders from sadistic 'Poonies, make total fools of themselves both in public and in the dark reaches of the Castle (where only editors...