Word: conducters
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...order to muster a big enough army to conduct this work, the little-known International Occultation Timing Association issued a call on its Web page, inviting volunteers to tape the eclipse--synchronizing their recordings with the Weather Channel, whose programming appears at the same hours all over the country--and then mail the cassettes to the organization's Maryland headquarters. By the day of the event, the Website had received some 7,400 hits, and organizers hope for hundreds of recordings. "The more tapes the better, " says Avalle. "And we expect plenty...
...this big stick business won't wash with the North. They're complaining ? quite reasonably, it seems ? that scheduling war games with 16,000 troops isn't exactly the best way to conduct the peace negotiations currently under way at Columbia University in New York...
...this big stick business won't wash with the North. They're complaining ? quite reasonably, it seems ? that scheduling war games with 16,000 troops isn't exactly the best way to conduct the peace negotiations currently under way at Columbia University in New York...
...Catholic or Protestant believers. The best known revolve around rituals of the temples, which are barred to outsiders. At "endowment" ceremonies, initiates receive the temple garments, which they must wear beneath their clothing for life. Marriages are "sealed," not only until death doth part, but for eternity. And believers conduct proxy baptisms for the dead: to assure non-Mormon ancestors of an opportunity for salvation, current Mormons may be immersed on their behalf. The importance of baptizing one's progenitors has led the Mormons to amass the fullest genealogical record in the world, the microfilmed equivalent of 7 million books...
...uphill battle for a position he has slim odds of winning. In stepping down as Governor of Massachusetts to fight Jesse Helms' opposition to his appointment as ambassador to Mexico, Weld said simply, "I don't believe it would be fair to the people of Massachusetts to permit the conduct of their government to become embroiled in the vagaries of Washington politics." Weld now finds himself alienated both from the President who nominated him and his own Republican party, having publicly blasted Jesse Helms for engaging in what he called "ideological distortion," and Clinton for seeming to back away from...