Word: bacci
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...thing that parents kept saying was that they wanted to choose the school that their children were attending," says Eileen Bacci, registrar of the Cambridge schools...
Massimo Livi Bacci, a professor of demographics at the University Cesare Alfieri in Florence, predicts that while populations on the Mediterranean's European north coast will barely increase over the next 30 years, those on the African south coast will rise more than 100 million. The numbers add up to an inescapable conclusion: if Europe is to find workers for all its industries and services in the years soon to come, it will have to raise its threshold of racial tolerance...
Died. Antonio Cardinal Bacci, 85, the Vatican's leading Latin expert, who fought bitterly with Pope Paul VI over introduction of vernacular languages into the Mass; in Rome. When the Mass was revised in 1969, the conservative cardinal angrily and publicly labeled the new version near heretical. The outburst was not surprising for a churchman whose whole life was devoted to the unshakable conviction that Latin, far from being dead, was a "living and vital language for all cultivated persons." Over the years, Bacci brought out four editions of a Latin dictionary, including terms that did not exist...
...papacy have hardly grown lighter since the 13th century, and they were defined last week in solemn ceremony for the man who would leave the conclave as the 262nd Pontiff. At a Mass in St. Peter's before the cardinals retired into their sealed-off quarters, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, Secretary of Briefs to the Princes (an ancient office in the papal household), told them in finely chiseled Latin what sort of man they must choose...
...cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...