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Each bunco party is as different as the women playing it. Most parties rotate hosting duties and all include food, but the fare can run from a lavish meal complete with china and linen to a potluck buffet. Some adopt a theme for each month's meeting, like a haunted house with all the players wearing Halloween costumes...
...military can they retain control over a people who despise them. But in comparison to the Arsenal of Democracy that will set up shop next door in Iraq during and after a war, their trump card looks like playground equipment and they will have no choice but to adopt a more pro-American outlook. Similarly, war against North Korea is highly undesirable; the 11 million residents of Seoul sleep within the range of North Korean artillery. Allowing that state to retain and increase its nuclear capability, however, is just as unthinkable. Only once the United States has shown that...
...that end, the Red Cross is looking to adopt new medical technologies, Benjamin said. One advance would inactivate pathogens in blood, killing “million-folds of HIV and other infections,” Benjamin said...
Thus there are two options left to churches, and both would probably be considered extreme by mainline standards: the route of liberal churches such as the United Church of Christ, which allows its congregations to adopt “open and affirming” positions, whereby all people, regardless of sexuality, are allowed “full membership” including leadership; or the route of conservative churches, like the Southern Baptist Convention, which is unambiguous in its distaste for homosexuality and its practitioners...
...advisor to Harvard’s president in the 1930s, he urged the University to adopt the SAT as its standard for judging applicants more on their merit and less on their family connections...