Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independent-minded American Catholic Church he was about to encounter. "I am convinced that the American church is a good church, a very good church," John Paul told journalists, in informal remarks aboard the papal jetliner Spoleto. He downplayed the importance of dissident voices that he was expected to hear on such sensitive issues in the U.S. church as marriage for priests, homosexuality and the ordination of women. "I am accustomed to that," he said in answer to a question about protests. "It would not be normal not having that -- especially in America." John Paul said he intended to speak...
...find a last-minute baby-sitter to how to judge a prospective child-care center. For working parents unsure how to find suitable care for their children, C.C.S. will provide information tailored to their pocketbooks, locations and special needs. In each workshop, some 20 employees will share information and hear advice from experts on the care of children and elderly parents...
Moreover, in the near future the court is not likely to hear any cases that deal with outright prohibitions against abortion. "What they're going to have," says UCLA Law Professor Julian Eule, "is cases that deal with a variety of obstacles to abortion that the states have constructed. Therefore, what the court would do, rather than say, 'We abandon Roe v. Wade,' is to allow increasing leeway to states to regulate the parameters of the right to an abortion." More regulation would undoubtedly mean fewer abortions...
...that storm arrives, readers of First Light will never hear of it. For the quiet, almost humdrum opening chapter of this first novel is also, in a traditional sense, the conclusion of the tale. Charles Baxter, 40, the author of two fine collections of short stories, has not only come across an interesting idea for an experimental narrative but has managed to translate it into convincing fiction. The book's epigraph, from Kierkegaard, provides the key: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards...
...President's strong words did not dispel a certain nervousness among the officials and diplomats who came to hear her. Many were momentarily startled when an army artillery squad fired the ceremonial 21-gun salute. They had reason to wince. The uprising had been bloody: 22 civilians, twelve loyalist soldiers and 19 rebels dead, with more than 300 injured, including Aquino's only son Benigno ("Noynoy"), 27. Perhaps more distressing, the coup attempt has exposed a deep vein of military dissatisfaction with the Aquino government, which has been bedeviled by a growing list of economic, administrative and, some allege, moral...