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...think the amount of time will be burdensome," Nozick said, adding, "it's hard to know when we haven't been provided with the barest of figures...
Only captain Gene Vastola survived the preliminary rounds (which determined the team champions), and even he made it to the finals by only the barest of margins (see column at left). Once in the finals, Vastola, who had a shot at third until his last bout, placed sixth...
Other appealing candidates stand only the barest chance in the voting. One is Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, 56, a black priest from Benin (formerly Dahomey), who was consecrated bishop 21 years ago by Pius XII. A tall, gentle man, quick to smile, he is now prefect of the Commission on Justice and Peace. Another is Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume, 55, a Benedictine monk who in 1976 was plucked from obscurity as Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey to become Archbishop of Westminster. Hume's relative youth and inexperience are likely to count negatively with the pragmatic Cardinals...
...understand, and hearing those words from a seven-year-old child, who has few inhibitions or fears to express himself and what he has been taught, as opposed to the adult who has been taught that he should feel guilty about his privileged position, puts the facts in their barest truth...
Once all the hoopla of official dedication and the Dating Game-like rundown of both teams was over, the meet itself was finally stripped down to its barest essentials: strategy and pure competition...