Word: layman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Micheal Lavery, a New York-based Maryknoll layman who is a friend of Bourgeois, said yesterday Duarte's statement was "an attempt to unjustly blame the victim, and to lessen any possible suspicion of the El Salvadoran paramilitary's involvement in the priest's disappearance...
...greatest service Goodfield provides however, is simply her love in describing for the layman modern science and its workers. Popularizing science is a necessary project in a democratic culture where such work is subsidized by universities and government agencies. Yet since the time of Einstein (who was the first to write two accounts of his theories one for the public and one for the profession), science has slithered further and further away from the layman. Although popularization is becoming more common, in many ways it is also becoming less accessible. And science has become for many, a secret brotherhood dealing...
...Another drawback with the plant is that reactions can be difficult to read for a layman. The changes are often very subtle," she added...
With some reason. Between 1970 and 1975 the Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers of Baltimore were accused by Maryland's attorney general of frittering away some $45 million in mission funds. The United Methodist Church is financially aboveboard, but there are ideological disputes. Last year a layman who works for the AFL-CIO complained that his church had wrongly given $442,000 in aid to "totalitarians" who support revolutionary regimes in Cuba and elsewhere. Church officials contended that helping groups with Marxist ideas was a "risk" modern Christians must take to help the "oppressed...
Reagan's speech was an impressive opening gun. Talking quietly but seriously for 18 minutes in layman's language, the President asserted that the nation has no choice but to break with its past profligacy. Said he: "We have to face the truth." Ticking off some familiar statistics -back-to-back years of double-digit inflation for the first time since World War I, 7 million unemployed, a national debt of $934 billion-he warned that "we are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save...