Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grocery store that will close in 15 minutes for an hour-long lunch break, a saleslady tries to keep me from entering. But others push past her, so I join the rush. A refrigerated bin holds brown paper bags filled with ground meat, half a dozen scrawny chickens and four packages of beef -- fatty, mostly bone and covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon...
...John Paul last year pursued this pattern with two important appointments. As Archbishop of Philadelphia, he chose Anthony Bevilacqua, 65, who had handled the ouster of a pro-choice nun in 1983. The see of Pittsburgh went to Donald Wuerl, 48, who had earlier been assigned to keep watch over Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Resentment over the Hunthausen affair is one cause of mistrust and disagreement between the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy. In the hope of improving relations, several dozen U.S. bishops will travel to Rome in March for a highly unusual face-to- face meeting with...
...style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after...
...says Trump, a little surprised. "I've never felt even close to needing it. I haven't ever felt that I was out of control. I keep busy. I don't have time to think about my problems...
Quote of the Week: "If you're a teacher and all your students were flunking, you just can't say your students were bad students. If you're a doctor and your patients keep dying, they weren't all terminal."--Harvard men's basketball Coach Peter Roby after Harvard dropped three games on the road over winter break...