Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency stands to gain much by caution and prudence, and to risk everything by impulsive actions that upset the world's finances. With enormous wealth comes large responsibility, and SAMA seems up to the challenge. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Adam Zagorin/Beirut
...said that the new coach's success can be seen in the rapid improvement of many members of the men's team, especially Adam Beren, who jumped from number-five spot to number two after he began using Usher's tactics this winter...
...control over nominations to boards that run the six Southern Baptist seminaries. Smith, like his predecessor, is a scriptural hard-liner who believes the Bible is "in-errant," free of errors in all matters spiritual and historical. Inerrantists believe, for example, that a whale actually swallowed Jonah and that Adam and Eve were individuals, not symbols. That is the faith of most grass-roots Southern Baptists but not necessarily of the seminary professors, many of whom interpret the Bible somewhat less rigidly. For three years hard-liners have been plotting to dominate the denomination...
...readers dating from the 19th century, which progress from primers designed to teach reading by the use of phonics to literary anthologies of great poetry and prose-often heroic or uplifting excerpts. Instead of sentences like "See Spot run," special first-grade texts use Christian lessons to teach reading: "Adam was the first father. Eve was the first mother." Two plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical...
...difficult year," says Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center. "But then the ambassador to Russia cannot usually do much anyway," he adds...