Word: handed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next day, I had the ugly task of dealing with a situation gone out of hand, because I hadn't been honest with myself or with anyone else. I had listened to well-intentioned but uninformed roommates instead of listening to my own feelings. Because I had been wishy-washy, I had to be twice as hurtful as I might have been had I been up front from the beginning...
...funds now hold nearly $500 billion, up from $40 billion in 1984, according to Gordon Davidson, head of the Social Investment Forum in Boston. Much of this nest egg belongs to pension funds like the $53 billion California Public Employees Retirement System. Their increasingly activist stance has strengthened the hand of the many religious groups that have waged an 18-year fight with corporations, seeking to influence policy through proxy battles at shareholders' meetings. Harrison Goldin, the comptroller of New York City and trustee of $30 billion in pension funds, led a campaign last spring to force Exxon's management...
Veterans around the country, on the other hand, were outraged that they had risked their lives to protect a flag so that others might have the right to burn it. Said Don Bracken, the adjutant quartermaster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in Seattle: "The flag is a symbol of the U.S., and when you destroy that flag, you destroy the principles of our country." Conservative activists such as Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation saw the ruling as yet another attack on traditional values. "The Supreme Court has told us schoolchildren may wear printed obscenities on their...
...structure is not really an enlarged replica of St. Peter's. Designed by architect Pierre Fakhoury, 45, an Ivory Coaster of Lebanese ancestry, the basilica has no paintings, statues, wooden paneling, tapestries or carvings. Instead, the building, buttressed by 60 interior columns, serves as a gallery for 36 immense, hand-blown stained- glass windows. In a brilliant conception, hundreds of colors splash across the nave in patterns that change throughout the day. "It is the church of light," says a mason at the site, "the light of God." The basilica, which is entered from a huge porch overhung with stained...
Dowd offered, as a smoking gun, Rose's fingerprints on betting sheets. (Rose has claimed never to have seen the sheets before.) A handwriting analyst, formerly with the FBI, contends that they were written in Rose's hand. Meanwhile, as the two-day hearing adjourned last Friday, the Reds' manager was at an autograph show in Atlantic City, stoically selling his signature at $15 per scribble. "Being fair and legally correct aren't always the same thing," Judge Norbert A. Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled...