Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to Reagan's tax cuts, the rich were able to fill their garages with Porsches. Meanwhile, the poor were watching their streets become battle grounds, drug lord squaring off against drug lord. While the average person in the top two quintiles of income got wealthier during the Reagan era, the rest of the country got poorer...
...whole church," she recalls. "At the end of the service, the deacon stood up and said, 'We have some politicians who would like to say a few words to you.' Everybody looked at us, and we shook our heads. 'You mean you're not politicians? Then praise the Lord!' And the whole church started laughing." The choir and its soloist, Lannie Spann McBride, perform the film's final funeral anthem...
...from ourselves. We are all to some extent tending to our character, trying to turn efforts of will into habits of mind in the hope that generosity will one day come easily. People of all faiths find in charity a chance for thanks, praise and obedience. "What doth the Lord require of thee," asks Micah, "but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" To borrow from the Quakers, many volunteers believe that when the worship is over, the service begins...
...then so can we and future generations of Harvard students. At other schools, students demonstrate school pride by painting themselves blue and taking off their shirts in sub-zero weather at nationally televised football games. We drop names. And in an age of declining prestige, we should thank the Lord ('00) that we can still do that...
...Lord says Mitchell "is a sound scholar with great erudition, as well as a very lively and dignified presence on the platform...