Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace and human solidarity, striving to build up the one human family." But the Polish-born Pontiff had also come to listen, and to respond carefully to the divergent voices of the American religious melting pot -- Catholic and non-Catholic alike -- that were raised as he arrived...
...abortion decision: I said before becoming a judge that I didn't think the case was decided on sound constitutional reasonings. There may be other grounds to justify the result. I'd be willing to listen for them, but I don't know what they...
...hopelessly politicized. After only five weeks on the job, he was called to the White House by Nixon Aide Alexander Haig and asked to run the President's Watergate defense. After some indecision, Bork ultimately maneuvered his way out, in part because Nixon refused to let him listen to the White House tapes. Three months later came the Saturday Night Massacre. Bork's name became a household word overnight when, as acting Attorney General, he fired Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, refused to do so. At his judicial confirmation hearings nine...
RELIGION: On his U. S. pilgrimage, Pope John Paul II aims to teach and to listen...
...months ahead, some contenders are certain to emphasize their electability rather than issues. But it would be a mistake to conclude that presidential stature can be automatically achieved by winning a few primaries. That merely prompts the voters to listen. The real trick is having something...