Word: manifeste
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...returning to reality," claims the American Enterprize Institute's Ben Wattenberg. "Reality has a way of hitting us on the head every now and then." James David Barber, Duke's chief political scientist, finds a growing yearning for unity that could manifest itself in these months, setting in motion political currents that would be almost impossible to change...
...system, then a federal judge can order sweeping desegregation for all of the system. In Dayton and Columbus, that meant busing for some 55,000 students. Coming on the heels of the Weber decision in June, which held that employers could give job preference to blacks to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in the work force, the busing cases signal the court's strong support for affirmative action. For blacks, at least, the message is clear. Says Georgetown University Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "With the Warren Court you could say, 'Blacks win.' Now you can begin...
...high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether or not it has had discriminatory job practices in the past, a company can use affirmative-action programs to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in employment without fear of being challenged for its efforts in the courts...
...that context, John Paul speculated on the ethnic significance of his election as Pope last Oct. 16. "Is it not the intention of the Holy Spirit that this Polish Pope?this Slav Pope?should at this precise moment manifest the spiritual unity of Christian Europe? Although there are two great traditions, that of the West and that of the East, to which it is indebted, through both of them Christian Europe professes 'one faith, one baptism, one God and Father...
...congregations of the "Church off Silence": Is it not Christ's will that this Pope, in whose heart is deeply engraved the history of his own nation from its very beginning, and also the history of brother peoples and neighboring peoples, should in a special way manifest and confirm in our age the presence of these peoples in the church and their specific contribution to the history of Christianity? He [the Pope] comes here to speak before the whole church, before Europe and the world, of those often forgotten nations and peoples. He comes here to cry "with...