Word: crossing
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...have benefited from a membership in theBoston Running Club, a perk of running with theRed Cross team...
...reasons for faith. Pilgrims can visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran and climb (on their knees) the "Holy Steps" of Pontius Pilate's palace which Jesus traversed several times on the day he was condemned and crucified. Less dominating, but more profound, in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, large pieces of the crosses of both Jesus and one of the thieves crucified with him are displayed in a side chapel, along with two thorns from the crown of thorns that adorned Jesus' head in his final hours...
Every five kilometers, or 3.1 miles, runners cross a mat lying across the course that registers their time and place. This information is then posted on the BAA's Web site...
...important aspect of the recent shuffling is that nearly all the mergers have been domestic corporate marriages rather than cross-border European takeovers, which had been expected to proliferate when the euro was introduced in financial transactions in January. The main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head...
...estimated 100 million readers who hadn't tuned in for a while, the Easter Sunday edition of his caveman cartoon B.C. may have come as a bit of a shock. The characters were familiar; but B.C. and the Cute Chick were watching the sun set behind a very large cross. As the sun dipped, the cross's shadow extended until it enveloped them. The shadow, Hart explains, was done in blood red to indicate Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made us white as snow...