Word: honored
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...practicing its own form of apartheid along the lines of gender and sexual orientation by limiting the role of women within the Church and by actively perpetuating anti-gay bigotry. Many other world religions, including Unitarians, Quakers, some Protestant denominations and reform Jewish groups are beginning to respect and honor the sexual diversity among people. Now is the time for the Catholic Church to follow suit. Warren Blumenfeld
...mounting an elevator cable and skittering along a momentarily inactive high-tension wire. The basic elements are conventional: an ex-con who wants to go straight, a fallen woman redeemed by love, moral corruption that goes unnoticed by police, schemes and counterschemes for revenge, deluded invocations to chivalry and honor among thieves. The end game is enlivened by Freudian twists, but the greatest strengths are Gores' skillful crosscutting, swift pace and mastery of tone. Because his breakneck intensity never falters, the reader is unlikely to pause and notice the implausibilities of the plot...
...ponder further how to halt the price decline. Whatever is decided, the mere appearance of unity at that session would at least temporarily send oil / prices back up. But many experts doubt either that OPEC can reach an agreement acceptable to all its members or that members would actually honor any commitments to cut production...
...350th Anniversary, informing me that the celebration in the Stadium in early September will be produced by the same impresario who gave us the opening and closing ceremonies of the Los Angeles Olympics. The letter says that for a mere $500, I can be admitted to the circle of honor, presumably halfway up and at midfield, for the best view of the spectacle...
...center, which contains laboratories, classrooms, lecture halls, advanced computers and a library, is being named in honor of Dr. Arthur G.B. Metcalf, a local industrialist and chairman of the university's board of directors...