Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply tired of top-drawer pressure. In any case, star-quality executives who are let go rarely land new jobs commensurate in perquisites or prestige with their old ones. Often they must take a dramatic cut in pay. Some prospective employers fear that the former ruler of a corporate kingdom will resent suddenly having to take orders. Says Sheldon Hirsch, a Los Angeles executive recruiter: "The higher the level, the more difficult it is for them to find something...
...North unwilling to accept citizenship in a united Ireland dominated by a large Catholic majority. To force them all into a single state, O'Brien argues, would be an act of imperialism equivalent to the one committed by Britain when she ruthlessly incorporated the Irish into the United Kingdom in the first place...
...Looking for a spectacular Second Coming of Jesus Christ [Jan. 8] as a way of solving the world's problems is a philosophy of despair. It assumes that Jesus' way of bringing about the kingdom of God through the faithful work of his followers will not succeed...
...seat majority over Dr. George Borg Olivier's Nationalists and would likely lose any election held now. The Prime Minister has not exactly increased his popularity with the 330,000 Maltese by threatening to make them repatriate investments kept abroad, including an estimated $500 million in the United Kingdom. Moreover, Malta is no longer the legendary unsinkable aircraft carrier of World War II. The only strategic reason Britain maintains naval and air groups there is that by doing so it denies Malta's bases to East bloc forces...
...Millennialists are mostly those Lutherans and Calvinists who consider themselves closest to the founding reformers. They believe that the 1,000 years of the Millennium are symbolic, either of Christ's eternal heavenly reign or of the period between the First and Second Advents, in which the kingdom of God exists but is only partly realized. Non-Millennialists believe in an actual Second Coming that may occur at any time...