Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather, he spends a good deal of time criss-crossing the globe to carry out a vow he made years ago while still in college: "to devote some segment of my time and knowledge and ability to what I would broadly call the securing of peace in the world--the...
The Israeli reaction to Prince Fahd's call for a holy war was mild. Proclaimed a foreign ministry spokesman: "We are not shocked and we are not worried." The Israelis, in fact, seemed far more preoccupied with the latest internal squabble of Begin's faltering government. This time...
"You don't have any idea what it's like to sit across the desk from a woman in tears, whose life has been destroyed, and ask her boiler-plate questions like her Social Security number." So says Don Hancock, 33, an Austin lawyer who handles divorces. His...
The I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls...
The losers feel that in various ways, big and small, the process of campaigning for the presidency is flawed. Baker firmly believes the process takes too long, perhaps because he waited too long in the Senate before joining the process full time. Says he: "I saw the entire Canadian government...