Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some parents began to complain that their children were getting no education at all. But when the school district proposed $1.6 million in bond issues for new classrooms, equipment and buses, voters said no. The reason? A general anger directed at the huge hog farms. And a belief that Seaboard Corp. was not paying its way. Which, of course...
Patt Dorsey, who coordinates youth hunts for Colorado's division of wildlife, is concerned about the vast disconnection between hunters and nonhunters: "People who do not hunt do not have a feeling for what it involves." She claims to see a slow return to "the belief of the very early hunter-gatherers that if one bragged or displayed a killed animal, its spirit would come back and do terrible things...
...Bishop removed the church's maverick priest, Father Jim Callan, who had pushed his parish beyond Catholic extremes. In 1974, during his very first homily as a priest, he called for the ordination of women. He also welcomed all to partake of Communion (with no baptism and no belief required). In 1993 he began blessing gay unions. He characterizes many of the Vatican's policies as "sinful and discriminatory...
Then shake-ups at Citigroup--and a growing belief that the economy had got so strong that the Fed would ease no longer--pushed the banks down for 10 days in a row, taking back as much as a third of their recent gains...
...going to make a decision based solely on what's aired on TV," said Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca before watching the show. Meanwhile, some of Kevorkian's friends have expressed concern about this stand he's trying to take. "I think he's actually under the belief that he's not simply a doctor now," said longtime Kevorkian lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, adding that the doctor wouldn't do anybody any good by "martyring himself" now. There is, however, no justice more poetic than a euthanasia doctor ending his career by his own hand...