Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STARR plays Flote as a religious fanatic with simple faith. Though Starr has difficulty when it comes to singing, at other times his voice is appropriately tremulous and sincere...
...tenuous evidence can be presented that repealing the prevailing wage would result in lower taxes, repeal advocates have continually stressed this as a major campaign issue. As Mark Erlich of the Committee for Quality of Life said, "the phrase `tax savings' is a code word that people accept on faith. Our feeling is that we need to educate the public on a fairly complicated issue. In an age where simplistic arguments are winning, it is gratifying to have won so much support for this issue...
...earliest known exhibit of the shroud, in 1354, a French bishop declared it to be a fraud. Through subsequent centuries the church refused to confirm its authenticity. The examination that finally discredited the shroud was conducted with the full blessing of the church, in an unusual alliance between honest faith and objective science. When Pope John Paul was informed of the negative report two weeks ago, he ordered, "Publish...
...most investors realize that U.S. oil properties will be quite dear someday, since the country's 25.3 billion bbl. in estimated reserves are less than one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's. Last week twelve companies demonstrated their faith in the value of the finite resource by bidding a combined $7.3 billion for the oil and natural-gas assets of Houston-based Tenneco, which is selling those properties to concentrate on its gas-pipeline and construction- equipment businesses. Chevron agreed to pay $2.6 billion for the firm's stakes in the Gulf of Mexico, while T. Boone Pickens' firm, Mesa Limited...
...perennial election year debate over why so few Blacks register to vote. If the system repeatedly denies equal treatment to all its citizens, the experiment of democracy breaks down. If one Black person has been discriminated against by a biased jury, then how can any of us have faith that justice exists...