Word: considerations
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"I don't know whether we've got an official reading on that," Dietrich said yesterday, adding that the board will consider Gund's plan at a meeting in two weeks. The board did not reach a decision last week because two members were absent, Dietrich said.
Congress is taking a cue from such state and local initiatives as it begins to consider new ways of promoting home ownership. After years of battling the Reagan Administration's wrecking-ball approach, which leveled housing funds from 7.5% of the federal budget in the late 1970s to 1.5% last...
Some critics consider peace recruiters unpatriotic or blind to the opportunities the military offers disadvantaged youngsters. Others charge that they spout ideology, not information. But many students seem to appreciate peace promoters' efforts at consumer education, even if they do not always follow the advice. After listening to a member...
Sound farfetched? Perhaps. But normally unflappable Bostonians consider this apocalyptic vision a real possibility, and it has the city in an uproar. In two years construction is scheduled to begin on the $4.4 billion Central Artery project, the rebuilding of a highway that runs through the heart of downtown Boston...
Actually, this passage did not spring from Rushdie's imagination: similar accounts of Muhammad's temptation were recorded a millennium ago by Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari and other authoritative Muslim historians. Today's Islamic scholars, however, do not consider the story authentic. Like the section dealing with the scribe...