Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like I'm Not Satisfied has an elegant, low-down savor that has little to do with moral authority, however. It works so nicely, as the album co-producer David Z. explains, "because it bridges the gap between pop and alternative music." It also hits home because of Gift's vocals...
Professional interpreters are among the first to admit the sad state of translation in the courts. They are often relegated to clerical status, with low pay, and asked to work without time to prepare. Says New York interpreter Gabriel Felix: "We could use a central administrator, dictionaries and in some courts a place to hang our coats, a chair and a desk...
...Wright affair has a low-priority rating among most Americans. That may , change with the televised debate. It appears that many people are just beginning to understand that the Speaker is at the top of our political structure along with the President and the Chief Justice of the U.S. An assault on his authority is a historic event. No Speaker has been forced from office because of personal scandal. The autocratic Joe Cannon was stripped of much of his power back in 1910, and he withered away. But that was a sheer political play by fed-up House members...
...allowed to pierce their ears and wear trendy hairstyles -- acts of individual expression forbidden in Japan's lockstep education system. But former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander hopes the Japanese will teach Americans something too. Speaking at the school's opening ceremonies, he bemoaned U.S. students' poor test scores and low high school graduation rates. "The Japanese have been careful to learn from us," he said. "Perhaps we can learn something from T.M.G...
...mainline leaning for liberal politics and low-cal theology drew on a sort of rationalism that, in the view of Richard Mouw of California's Fuller Theological Seminary, is no longer fashionable. "We are experiencing a reaction against modernity," says Mouw. "We are getting magic and the occult and the New Age. There's a return to a premodern world view." Mouw, an Evangelical, asserts that the churches were seriously mistaken in seeking to duck the age-old questions: "Who am I as a human being before God? How can I face my own death? How can I be forgiven...