Word: chambers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only eight major nations in the world, all Catholic, do not allow divorce. They are Italy, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay. Of the eight, the one closest to ending its prohibition is the home of the church it self. Italy's Chamber of Deputies last week began full debate on a bill that would allow civil divorce for one of seven reasons. Parliamentary observers predict that the bill will pass, probably before the end of the year...
...much less work. Since raising their annual salaries from $30,000 to $42,500 early in the session, they have produced virtually no significant legislation. The Senate met only twice last week. House leaders privately admit that they are scrounging for enough official business to keep the lower chamber functioning three days a week. Representative Otis Pike of New York told constituents in a recent newsletter: "Congress as a legislative operation has almost ceased to exist...
...long run be turned into assets. Mehta thinks that the eventual answer will be an orchestra in every major American city that will serve several musical purposes. "The only way seasons can be enlarged indefinitely is by giving symphony and opera," says Mehta, "then breaking up the orchestra-making chamber-music groups, moving around the countryside, going out to the people." Leinsdorf goes Mehta one better. "The solution is not to make the orchestra smaller but to make it larger, 120 in all, instead of 100 or 106. It would have three divisions within it: a baroque ensemble...
Looking Back, Brauer explains, deals "again with the problem of digesting the past. The red shape is a gas chamber, but in order to live with it, I paint it beautiful. The green man looks back at it indirectly, through a mirror. The little monsters are like the people who seemed to me monsters when I walked the streets of Vienna as a boy during the war." On the other hand, the green man has holes in his shoes simply because "it makes the feet more interesting." The folds of his trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have...
...Improvement. In general, nursing homes have long had a chamber-of-horrors reputation, especially many of the older, smaller "mom and pop" homes run by unskilled husband-and-wife teams. Roy Christensen, 35, president of Beverly Enterprises, charges that they often are "just cesspools for the dying aged." By all outward signs, the newer chain homes are a vast improvement. Most are airy, well-lighted, landscaped structures that look like motels. Some have such amenities as barbershops and beauty parlors. Mindful that idleness can break the will to live, many organize activities for patients, including on-premises religious services, movies...