Word: bolds
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Almost a year has passed since a committee of five Roman Catholic bishops released the first draft of a pastoral letter that denounced the "massive and ugly" failures of the American economy and called for a bold new effort to aid the poor both in the U.S. and abroad. Impassioned and provocative, the document aroused a torrent of reaction that ran to 10,000 pages of comments from Catholics and non-Catholics alike. While many liberals praised the letter as a blueprint for economic justice, conservatives complained that it was an unjustified assault on the foundations of capitalism...
...South African officials had put out the word that Botha planned to announce a package of unprecedented reforms, and expectations were high. Instead of demonstrating flexibility, however, Botha delivered a finger-wagging sermon that warned foreign governments not to "push us too far." His intransigence only hardened demands for bold reforms. Whereas many critics were disposed in August to consider a gradual easing of apartheid, by last week, as Botha's state of emergency entered its twelfth week and two more blacks were killed by riot police, they seemed unwilling to embrace reforms that fell shy of a total renunciation...
...popular store for born-too-late New Yorkers, Butterfly on Eighth Street, stopped selling fake i.d.'s after a Sixty Minutes expose led to their getting busted. Playland, in the heart of Times Square, doesn't make student i.d.'s anymore, and the bold black letters that read "Official Identification" on the cards that they now sell hardly look official. In addition, in order to legally sell fake i.d.'s, Playland has to stamp the cards "For Novelty Use Only...
...Bold letters across the top of the page read, "Still crazy after all these years." Underneath the heading was a pair of bright yellow shoes which looked like it had been taken from a cast member of the movie Cocoon...
shortage of new priestly vocations requires specifically addressing such issues as celibacy." Those were bold words, since John Paul has repeatedly indicated that priestly celibacy is a closed question...