Word: fervently
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...Today a fervent Polish fealty -- part feudal, fiercely loyal -- attends John Paul in the Vatican. The five black-robed nuns who cook his meals and do his laundry are members of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is based in Cracow. More important, one of the Pope's two secretaries -- and the one who controls all access to his boss -- is Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, 55, also of Cracow. (The other secretary is not Italian, as one might expect, but ( Vietnamese, Monsignor Vincent Tran Ngoc...
Fortunately, Martinez's fervent performance, (in spite of a rather uneven Southern accent) carries the scene. As both Lady's dying husband and her ex-lover, Sam Baum does well with the difficult but pivotal role...
Such tension and turmoil do not have to continue. Year-to-year fluctuations aside, economists and executives generally agree that the U.S. has built the best-balanced, leanest, most efficient base for steady growth that it has had in decades. Workers can only add the fervent wish: after all the pain it has cost us to get here, don't blow...
...stunning victory for a man who, just four years ago, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of cocaine. Former Washington mayor Marion Barry astonished even his most fervent supporters by trouncing city council member John Ray and incumbent mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly in the Democratic mayoral primary. Kelly, who won four years ago as a reformer in the wake of Barry's arrest, did not win a single precinct...
Such language drew early and fervent protests from the Vatican, which sees "control their reproductive lives" as a code phrase calling not only for access to artificial birth-control methods but also for abortion on demand. When Pope John Paul II met with Sadik earlier this year, he delivered a message condemning abortion as a "heinous evil" and followed up by calling the proposed plan a "project of systematic death." Sadik maintains that the conference plan does not endorse or encourage abortion, but merely declares that the millions of abortions performed every year should be done under conditions that ensure...