Word: baskets
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, the first woman to be chief editor of the respected journal Commonweal, sees no doctrinal reason to prevent women priests. But big "anthropological and psychological barriers" stand in the way, she observes, so "I'm not going to put all my eggs in that basket." Better for now, she thinks, to seize the opportunities for nonordained women to hold positions of administrative power and intellectual influence...
...article: "Peru? Where the hell is Peru? Well, it was first found by Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swinerherd. It's west of Brazil and north of Chile. First faltering democracy on your right. You can't miss it...It's a messy society...and the economy is a basket case..." The naive geographical description fails to do justice to the fourth largest Latin American nation, homeland of the Inca Empire, the most advanced civilization in pre-Hispanic America. In fact, most of the population takes its roots from the Incas, not the Spaniards...
...economy is a basket case, boasting the second lowest per capita GNP in Latin America. Despite impressive metal resources, the only time foreign investors got really excited about Peru was during the 19th century, when 80 percent of government revenues were derived from the export of guano (which is, well, bird shit...
...each aisle she passes. Electronic alert: Cup O' Noodles on sale, two for $1; veal chops, $6.99, a dollar off the regular price. "I used to scour all the flyers for bargains," says Alpert, a lawyer from nearby Edgemont, but now the computer takes care of that. Her basket filled, she takes her place in the check-out line. But rather than browse through the National Enquirer or Redbook, she passes the time playing a trivia game on the cart's computer. "It's surprising the way they're making shopping more convenient and less boring...
...collection basket passes through the crowd, Jerry Brown delivers a 45- minute homily on reclaiming the soul of the Democratic Party and bringing an end to "the whole stinking mess in Washington." His audience is 1,500 students, professors and supporters gathered at the college in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the student center is attached to a shopping mall. He blasts those at the top for prospering at the expense of those at the bottom, and condemns those he claims would send American jobs to low-wage Mexico. He says, "Thomas Jefferson said we need a revolution every 20 years. Well...