Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decision thus moves the Conservatives closer to liberal Jews and widens the gap with the Orthodox on the right, who deem the change unthinkable because traditional religious law limits several customary rabbinical duties to men. Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, executive vice president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, notes that when the Conservative movement arose a century ago, "they viewed themselves as a moderate wing of Orthodoxy. Through this decision they have broken all pretense of being part of Jewish tradition...
...father, please let not my liberal colleagues in Cambridge deem my appearance here as anything more than it is: but only an opportunity to address millions and millions of people who, most likely, would never have entered my humble Church and therefore might never have heard--well...
...even the most optimistic Republican foresees a G.O.P. majority in the House of Representatives, which the Democrats currently dominate by 266 to 167, with two seats vacant. Indeed, the number of new Republican seats that the optimists deem possible, around 20, would not even make up the 26-member loss that the party suffered in the 1982 mid-term election. Political Analyst Kevin Phillips says that most Republicans realistically expect to pick up only about six additional House seats...
...both the facts in a story and on the arrangement of stories it self. The structures of magazines and newspapers impose one kind of order; radio and television another, usually sequential. But every form journalism takes is designed to draw the public's attention to what the editors deem most important in a day's or week's events. This naturally violates the larger truth of a chaotic universe. Oddly, the public often contributes its own hierarchical arrangements by dismissing editors' discriminations and dwelling on the story about the puppy on page 45 instead...
...positive reaction to change is a vital step in any reform of either national or local standards of pre-medical education. Ultimately, any changes are dependent on what graduate schools deem acceptable. "We as an undergraduate school can design any courses that we want for pre-meds. The question is that the graduate schools don't necessarily have to accept that," Verba says...