Word: advent
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Baseball in April also means two other things: the advent of summer games and predictions...
...oral exam and were considered qualified. Joyce scored 73, Johnson 75. The local supervisor picked Johnson, but the county's affirmative-action coordinator recommended Joyce. When she got the job, Johnson got a lawyer. Like Allen Bakke and Brian Weber and countless other white males since the advent of affirmative-action programs some 20 years ago, Johnson claimed he was a victim of reverse discrimination...
Perhaps the most significant change adding to the turmoil in the credit- card industry is the advent of tax reform. Some experts think the new law will slow down the use of plastic credit because it phases out deductions for interest on card balances. But some banks are getting around that problem by linking Visa cards or MasterCards to a home-equity credit line. Interest on these home loans is still fully deductible. Customers can therefore get a credit line against their homes that permits them to run up as much as $100,000 in interest-deductible card charges...
Catholic leaders are understandably concerned about this. Before Swaggart's San Salvador rallies, Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez warned about the advent of an unnamed "Evangelical preacher given to spectacles." Though most Evangelicals have toned down suggestions of anti-Catholicism, Swaggart's language is more adversarial than that of the bishop. The preacher has insisted that Catholicism is a "false cult" and "not a Christian religion." In Central America, however, he made only soothing references to "our Catholic friends...
...first stages of what NASDAQ President Gordon Macklin calls a "global market for equities." That integration took a significant step forward in London last week. With much popping of champagne corks, exploding of fireworks and high jinks on the trading floor, the British financial community hailed the advent of Big Bang: the Oct. 27 abolition of a regime of fixed brokerage fees in existence since 1908, and their replacement by competitive commissions...