Word: hopes
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...Mainstream feminist groups look at the long way to go and wonder how the troops could have grown so complacent. Some see hope of rekindling the flames in the resurgent abortion issue. Membership in NOW, which was down to 160,000 last year (from a peak of 220,000 in 1982), jumped almost 100,000 in the aftermath of Webster. Many of the hundreds of thousands who participated in pro-choice demonstrations on Nov. 12, organized by NOW and other groups, were marching for the first time in their lives. Among them was Emily Friedan, 33, a Buffalo pediatrician...
...Keating. The last time he was asked whether the money he gave to California's Alan Cranston, Michigan's Donald Riegle, Ohio's John Glenn and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini and John McCain had persuaded them to intervene with federal regulators on his behalf, Keating baldly declared, "I certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations against him are true, Keating is "a financiopath of obscene proportions -- the Rev. Jim Bakker of American commerce...
...lovely into one that was painfully bleak. In the case of St. Croix, where a large bomb could scarcely have done more damage, the looting and disorder that followed were as terrifying as the wicked winds. And now, as the high season approaches, those who love the islands and hope to return are left wondering: How much paradise was lost...
Cristiani's top officers appear to have convinced him that the F.M.L.N. must be decimated before it will return to the negotiating table. That is probably a forlorn hope, even though the rebels' losses in the offensive may exceed 1,000. If nothing else, the rebels proved they can disrupt life in El Salvador whenever they choose. They have also shown that the government is all too willing to use its heavy firepower when the war is being fought in poor neighborhoods but is reluctant to strafe and bomb a rich enclave like Escalon, where support for the governing ARENA...
...bringing succor to the poor and dying of Calcutta and Kalighat, Mother Teresa finds richness in utter poverty and hope in the darkest corners of despair...