Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HARARE, Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, healthy elephants look like millions in lost ivory sales. Not any more. As delegates burst into "God Bless Africa," the U.N. Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow the three countries a one-time sale of 59 tons of stockpiled elephant tusks to Japan. While Africa's elephants no longer teeter on the brink of extinction, environmental "ele-friends" warn that the vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters...
Later, however, you get tired. Something goes wrong, you get overwhelmed and you sink down into Stage Three--over-exertion. Harvard has 41 varsity sports and you just CAN'T cover all of them, no matter how often the sailing team (bless their hearts!) e-mails in its results. You're not doing a perfect job, and you feel bad because...
...social gospel, he was heavily influenced by John Macmurray, a Scottish philosopher who wrote that Christians have a positive obligation to work toward improving society--the communitarian notion he still trumpets regularly. Blair nevertheless rarely speaks about his faith in public, refrains from ending speeches with "God bless you" and never attends high-profile prayer breakfasts with prominent religious figures. When asked by TIME if he is religious, Blair, who normally speaks in well-constructed, seamless paragraphs, became inarticulate: "I am, but I don't...you know...every time I talk about it...it's just...I don't want...
...Reebok is one of the worst of some 1,500 stocks in CalPERS' portfolio, god bless 'em. They could teach Warren Buffet a thing or two. Have they no Woolworths? The company hasn't been worth a dime in a decade. Times-Mirror trades below its 1987 peak. Bethlehem Steel has been pure lead for years. I don't know if CalPERS owns those awful stocks. The point is that real losers are out there. Dumping on Reebok is like saying you don't want Shaq on your team because he isn't Michael Jordan. Reebok founder and CEO Paul...
...mascaraed eyes, the fluttering false lashes, the layers of professionally applied makeup, the highlighted, upswept hair. Look at the clothes: the hand-stitched gowns, the Princess Di chapeaus, the high heels. Then do a double take over the teensy stick-figure bodies and the immature voices belting out God Bless America and Tomorrow. Like some human optical illusion, JonBenet Ramsey and her besequinned fellow beauty-pageant contestants are not in fact fully developed adults. They are pint-size little women often done up like trick ponies...