Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singles action, junior Christian Dragomirescu improved her singles record to 29-13 on the season with a straight-set decision over Jennifer Lane. Dragomirescu capitalized on Lane's errors, and used a solid ground stroke game to crush Lane...
...massacres were partly a religious conflict between the Muslim Ottomans and the Christian Armenians. Many Armenians dispute Turkish claims that the killing was motivated by wartime conditions, but was not a genocide. The issue has not been resolved...
...anxious white visitor can hop a Harlem Spirituals bus at 9 some Wednesday morning. As the bus heads uptown, a guide sketches a history of the district. A walk through Hamilton Grange and Sugar Hill precedes a stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope!" An old hymn like Amazing Grace percolates with...
...Koop might have remained just another bureaucrat if it had not been for AIDS. As the disease grew to near epidemic proportions, the Administration had to do something. Conservatives breathed a sigh of relief when in 1986 the President handed the job to the Fundamentalist Christian Surgeon General...
...Zeit commented that Helmut Kohl's control was so unchallenged that it would be hard to imagine Bonn without him as Chancellor. How quickly things change. Germany has a high standard of living and low inflation, but the latest polls suggest that if elections were held now, Kohl's Christian Democratic Union would be soundly trounced...