Word: bernard
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...been passing out money ever since he had any. On Christmas Eve 1952, he had two young children and just $1,100 in the bank. Yet he wrote checks totaling $700 to charities. In 1958--then with six children--he dropped $2,000 in the collection basket at St. Bernard's parish in Newton, Mass. The gift more than doubled the parish's take that week...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...
...Cardinal Bernard Law of the Boston Catholic Archdiocese echoed Khudairi’s warning. In his prayer, he asked for the “wisdom to not judge...a group of people based on the abhorrent acts...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl tells us that statistically - going back 40 years - there?s no immediate causal link between a reported spike in the unemployment number and decreased consumer spending. Scary news affects consumer confidence and often that shows up in their spending habits. But not for a few months down the line; for September, anyway, the people with jobs are likely spend, and the bottom line is still that more than 95 percent of the work force that wants a job still has one. (Even if maybe the new one pays a little less...