Word: devout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the stuff behind us and start fretting about the box office," Smith says. "I'm hoping that when people see the film, they'll say, 'Oh, it's not the movie that flips the bird at the church. It's actually kind of devout...
Kaminer said the level of religiosity in America has never been greater but argued against the widespread belief that religiosity is essential to political virtue. Candidates do not have to be devout to be moral, she said...
...Freshman Dean's Office should change its policy of granting rooming changes. Homophobic students, devout Christians or otherwise, should not receive special considerations here at Harvard, because gay and lesbian students certainly...
...belief which should be accommodated." Now, some first-years who request room changes may indeed be homophobes: they may bear an irrational fear or hate of gays. Some, one guesses, neither hate nor fear gays but would feel uncomfortable living with a gay student nonetheless. And some are probably devout Christians whose faith grounds their opposition to homosexuality, promiscuity, and the like. But the council bills, which fairly represent recent campus dialogue on this issue, classify all under the genus "homophobia," in effect equating Christians to bigots...
...model has devout believers. "I'm absolutely thrilled," comments James D. Robinson, who as CEO of American Express in the 1980s tried to marry banking, credit cards and other products with brokerage services in a financial supermarket. His plan dissolved amid corporate infighting and data-sharing nightmares that are now easily remedied with more powerful computers and better software. Another booster is Congressman Jim Leach, chairman of the House Banking Committee. He predicts that the bill will save consumers $15 billion a year in lower rates and fees...