Word: hope
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...scattered locales. In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the town's leaers have united around the conservation theme. With advice from the federal agency ACTION, they are in the process of opening ten neighborhood centers where residents can learn in three hours how to slash their energy costs. Ultimately, the projects organizers hope community volunteers will knock on every door in town and weatherproof thousands of homes. Such measures are unglamorous, but essential to a nation that hopes to be free of its dependence on foreign oil. Before the next blizzard, citizens and government at all levels must develop these and all other...
Still, the Brown organization is optimistic. His strategists hope he will place second to Kennedy in the New Hampshire and Massachusetts primaries, and score well in the Minnesota precinct caucus and the Illinois primary. Says Quinn: "If Carter comes in third in Illinois, he's finished." If Kennedy is regarded as too big a spender and Carter as incompetent, guess who will be "a new possibility." If not, as Brown said: "Maybe it will take more than one year. Maybe it will take four years. I'm only 41, and I've got a lot of time...
...have reached the point where discontent is so high that Barre cannot absorb it all himself." According to Jacques Attali, a leading Socialist economist, the reason is that Giscard and Barre can no longer promise light at the end of the austerity tunnel. Says Attali: "The French are losing hope." According to a survey in the business magazine L'Expansion, three out of four Frenchmen now believe that the economic crisis will be "enduring" rather than "transitory...
...successor Pius XII in 1951 approved the "rhythm method" of birth control. Pius XII also stated that "medical, eugenic, economic and social" motives could justify couples in limiting the size of their families. Nine years later the approval for marketing birth control pills raised the hope that such biochemical controls would be regarded as "natural" by the church. Pope John XXIII appointed a special commission to examine the matter. Its confidential, but later leaked, majority report to Paul VI in 1966 warned against avoiding childbearing for selfish reasons. Going beyond Pius XII's position, however, the report called...
That he might do so is precisely the hope of a research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...