Word: brethrens
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...little more ambitious now that he has buffed the Boston low-life novel to such a perfect shine. The Patriot Game, in fact, would have been an excellent opportunity, because in it he touches on--but ultimately skirts--the issues of the American Irish feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that these Irishmen are not running guns just to make money, but he resists any exploration of that rich vein of sentiment and history...
...three dissenters chided their brethren for showing too little deference to the Legislative Branch. "Congress is not an administrative agency that is required to state the grounds upon which it acts," wrote Judge George MacKinnon, himself a one-term Congressman. Moreover, he argued, veterans' groups are distinctive. Said MacKinnon: "War veterans have made unparalleled contributions to the creation and preservation of this nation...
...might ask people to take food with them," says FEMA spokesman James Holton. FEMA also plans to spend $600 million annually for the next seven years to supply rural areas with telephones and radios, medicine, and radiation detectors--all for the post-holocaust comfort of their city brethren...
...become a multimillion-dollar operation (1981 income: $68 million). By the mid-'70s, CBN had added two more owned-and-operated stations, in Atlanta and Dallas, to its Portsmouth base, but what really turned the electronic tide for Robertson was a satellite. CBN beat out its brethren by leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 2 satellite in April 1977, thus enlarging its video congregation by connecting with a maze of cable systems that now serve 14.5 million homes. Robertson predicts the total will reach 19 million by year...
...good position to dominate events. Our de facto ally Israel stood to win. Our moderate Arab friends, such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, though they could not admit it, were nearly as afraid of a victory achieved by Soviet arms as of a defeat of their Arab brethren. From the outset, I was determined to use the war to start a peace process...