Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of "calling" -- half prayer, half politics -- is conducted in utmost secrecy. After Riverside's search committee makes its choice, it will not give the names of also-rans to the deacons who govern the church and it will shred all the papers in its double-locked filing cabinet. "If it is known you are a candidate and don't get the call, it is very rough," explains search-committee chairman J. Richard Butler. One church that publicly named several finalists years ago lived to regret it: one of the rejected ministers was so crushed that he suffered a nervous...
...this was not the time for recriminations, as the Soviets, aided by an outpouring of worldwide concern, sought to shoulder the burden of their great tragedy. It was bitter irony that a leader who had just traveled half a world to talk of peace should return to a land that was, in the words of a Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, "like coming into a war, a cruel and modern...
...Mary's Cathedral when a street battle between two militant Tamil factions spilled through the doors and into the sanctuary. Mistaking young Chandrakumar for a wounded rival, guerrillas grabbed him. The boy's body was found that night outside the church, his legs broken, his fingernails missing, his head half blown away. "No mother should ever have to face the tragedy of seeing her son like that," Jayamani sobs. The tears turn to a hiss. "Somehow, I must go away. I am so afraid to live here...
More and more American corporations have responded to the literacy crisis by adding school bells to their time clocks. In the past decade, the price tag for remedial employee training in the three Rs has reached $300 million a year. More than half of FORTUNE 500 companies have become educators of last resort. As a result, employees are cracking the books as never before, even during work hours...
...from 22.4 million in 1979 to 20.2 million last year. Most of the growth will be among minorities -- the very groups that have been served least well by public school systems. Over the next decade, blacks, Hispanics and Asians, who may speak English poorly, will make up more than half of all entry-level employees...