Word: faithfulness
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...goods.) The stopgap allocation will help sustain the contras until Reagan can ask for fresh military assistance at the end of January. That will be shortly after Central American leaders are scheduled to meet in Costa Rica to determine whether the Sandinistas and the contras have tried in good faith to achieve a cease-fire. If the Sandinistas seem to be stalling, Congress could once again feel compelled to provide the rebels with yet another dollop of American military...
Lynch remains convinced that America is returning to competitive shape. To abandon the stock market now would be to lose faith in those bustling factories, offices and stores he inspects every week. He believed in the long- term value of U.S. companies before the crash. He still does...
There is a strong romantic streak in Democratic politics, the quixotic Adlai Stevenson campaigns, for example, and John Kennedy's brief, shining Camelot. For the party that nominated William Jennings Bryan three times, choosing a candidate is not a cold calculation of self-interest but a leap of faith, an idealistic commitment. Hart creatively and perhaps cynically used this imagery in recasting himself as the ultimate guerrilla insurgent, scorned by his party and tormented by the press. Of course, some of this live-off-the-land posturing is preposterous. Hart squandered the strongest and most dedicated organization in the Democratic...
Reagan noted that Gorbachev mentioned that the Soviet Union next year would observe the millennium of Christian faith in Russia. "I was intrigued about his mention of the millennium and how on a number of occasions he used God's name," the President said. "One of our Russian experts explained to me that God is a figure of speech over there, and when they invoke God's name they use it with a small g. It does not mean what some may think...
From a three- volume set on Chinese painting and calligraphy that costs, yes, $850 to a $14.95 paperback on vintage radios, from America' s quilts and the world' s water birds to the Hebrew Bible in medieval illuminated manuscripts, this season' s readings celebrate the realms of art, faith, nature and entertainment in varied, sumptuous style...