Word: creedes
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Even so, real or imagined unfairness in trade will persist, as will visceral fears of one's country being overtaken and bought up by foreigners. Fighting protectionism, the creed of economic know-nothings, in the U.S. and elsewhere, may be the greatest challenge to American leadership, and also its greatest opportunity. A special advantage is that the U.S., both an Atlantic and a Pacific power, has closer ties to Europe and Japan than they have to each other...
...Roman Catholics, though longtime adversaries, now "stand firm together for a historic faith against the insidious bloodletting which extreme liberalism perpetrates on the body Christian." Arthur Leggatt, the general secretary of the Anglo-Catholic Church Union, said last week, "We welcome his orthodox stand on the Scriptures and the creed...
...million-member denomination gave overwhelming approval to an 80-line "Brief Statement of Faith." After endorsement from regional units, it will join the ten other doctrinal statements that guide Presbyterians. The cleverly crafted text seems traditional enough to prevent the conservative opposition that killed a modernized creed in the Southern branch 14 years ago. Liberals, meanwhile, will be cheered by the heavy emphasis on the Social Gospel, including ecological concerns...
...with "Soviet reality" and his aspirations for "humanitarian socialism," Gorbachev was neither Thomas Jefferson nor Vaclav Havel. He was Yuri Andropov's protege, the Stavropol chieftain who came to the big city and made good. He was still thought to be a devout Communist, a true believer in a creed that is, in its essence, monopolistic: there is one truth about how society should be ordered, and therefore one source of authority...
...love. They're the ones whose social status is calculated in terms of their relationship to men. They are the members of society whose identity is all too often constructed around their roles as "girlfriends" or "wives." And therefore women are the targets of the Valentine's Day creed: It is supposed to be their opiate...