Word: attends
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Almost all the large police forces in the country are represented. The 50 largest cities were invited and 40 of these accepted, although a few, such as the commissioners in New York and Chicago, could not attend themselves. In both cases, they dispatched top-level assistants to the institute. The three-week period will be, Murphy said, the longest period of time that so many chiefs have been together. There is an annual meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs, but this lasts only four or five days...
...purely quantitative measurement of piety, parochial-school graduates rank statistically higher than those with a secular education. For example, 86% of U.S. Catholics who went to church-run schools attend Mass regularly, compared with 64% of Catholics schooled secularly. While 66% of parochial-school Catholics are inclined to accept the church's ban on contraception, only 46% of Catholics who went to secular schools...
...Greeley and Rossi conclude that it is not about to disappear. For one thing, the church could ill afford to abandon a multibillion-dollar investment. For another, the opinion survey showed that most Catholics, regardless of their educational background, approved of parochial schools and preferred that their own children attend them. Finally, the survey editors believe that the church in the U.S. has not found a better way to teach children what it means to be a Catholic...
Krogager wears a wristwatch with built-in alarm; when it rings during business conferences, he leaves to attend his pastoral duties for the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself...
...educational opportunity for Negro children. The evidence comes from a new Office of Education survey, 18 months in the making, of more than 4,000 elementary and high schools, 60,000 teachers and 645,000 students across the U.S. It shows that 80% of white children in first grade attend schools that are 90% or more white, while 65% of all Negro first-graders attend schools that are nine-tenths Negro...