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...impetus for future reform of the Church will come from a realization of the great diversity of the many local branches of the Church throughout the world, Stendahl said. Noting Pope Paul's efforts to carry out the Second Vatican Council's call for a loosening of the rigid Church hierarchy, he added, "The machinery for such diversity was laid during Paul's pontificate...
...government and about lower taxation." Those trends, he claimed, had been set "by us here in Washington" even before Proposition 13. slashing more than $7 billion from local property taxes, won thunderous approval in California. But, said Carter, he welcomed Proposition 13's overwhelming passage for the impetus it might provide for frugality in Congress...
Those kinds of complaints, fair or not, gave powerful impetus to Proposition 13. Whether Californians will regret their protest remains to be seen. Curiously, a Los Angeles Times poll after the balloting showed that 70% of those who supported 13 thought they would get by without any reduction in services. Many were interested simply in sending the government a message. The poll also showed that 22% felt the government provided too many unnecessary services. When asked which services they would be most willing to see cut, 69% said welfare...
Most sheep chicers are recent escapees from the suburbs, who get their folk wisdom from Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal. But their money and enthusiasm, along with a certain craving for hand-spun yarn and naturally colored fleece, lend impetus to the recent renaissance in New Hampshire sheep raising...
...this structure there is no provision for affecting policy-making in Harvard's smaller fiefdoms. Indeed, by the time grassroots student activism filters up the Assembly by way of elected representatives or students referenda, is fussed over in that deliberative body, and passed back down, any impetus for change will, likely as not, have dissipated...