Word: belief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting Christ-like isn't easy, Holpuch, a second-year member of FCA, says. "In general, to be an athlete you have to have almost a conceited belief in your own abilities, so it's hard for people to recognize they need God." she says. Recognizing that her athletic prowess came from God makes her confident but humble at the same time...
...only by birth. From the time he left his home on Hungary's central plains, his only known belief was that summed up by the aphorism ''Living well is the best revenge.'' It was something he had obviously read up on in the books he devoured as a child, feeding the fantasy life that he turned into elegant reality. He took his two talented younger brothers along with him on his journey. Zoltan, saturnine and hypochondriacal, never left home without his oxygen inhaler and his health foods ("Vair is my kelp?" he once demanded...
...EXAMINATION of its immediate points, the larger import of Glashow's and Weinberg's work can be easily overlooked. Unified field theory was unsubstantiated as recently as the 1950's. Belief that it would ultimately be proven true was the exception: skepticism was the rule. The "glorious tapestry" that we now appreciate was periously close to never being woven. So not only was guage theory momentous, but it was propitious, for with its discovery, the pendulum of scientific opinion swung in the other direction. As Bamberg suggests, "there's now abundant optimism where once there was none...
Kevin White admits that after 12 years the voters are looking for an alternative. But he has staked his campaign on the belief that Joe Timilty is not the man they're looking for. In fact, over the last eight years, none of the alternatives--Louise Day Hicks, David Finnegan, Mel King or Timilty--has drawn enough balanced support to unseat the mayor...
...stronger. But women's colleges must join together and quickly find a niche in the new Education Department. If they don't, they may be left out in the cold. "Women's colleges are all very different," says Horner, "but they are all connected by a fundamental philosophy and belief in the talents of women." All that belief and goodwill, however, means very little in the face of hundreds of well-oiled lobbying machines. If the case for women's colleges is going to be heard, a lot of people are going to have to get their hands dirty