Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partnership made a crucial change in the corporation's structure that enabled it to grow in a healthier manner. From direct manufacturing, Lauren and Strom switched almost entirely to licensing deals in which the manufacturer finances production, shipping and part of promotional costs. Thus they escaped the necessity of investment in the capital-intensive garment- making process, along with many of the subsequent losses caused by any product flops. Since the manufacturer assumes more of the risks under licensing arrangements, Lauren gets a smaller share of any resulting profits. But the licensing arrangements give him greater freedom to concentrate...
...ordinary magisterium, or an authoritative teaching of the church that does not have the certainty of absolute truth. But in his letter to Curran, Cardinal Ratzinger pointed out that the Second Vatican Council held that any doctrine taught by the Pope and the bishops together in a definitive manner is also to be considered infallible. "The church does not build its life upon its infallible magisterium alone," Ratzinger wrote, "but on the teaching of its authentic, ordinary magisterium as well." Curran claimed that the Vatican was trying to "fudge" the distinction between the two kinds of doctrines and stifle dissent...
...wherever he happens to be. At home in Atlanta, he heads for a local bookstore that carries the city's largest assortment of out-of-town publications and buys $80 worth at a time. "The clerk is always happy to have me do it," Jaynes says in characteristic deadpan manner...
...conference frequently proceeded in the manner of a labor negotiation. The delegates from each chamber would caucus separately and come back with a new offer to be presented to the other side. The House gave in early to the Senate's two tax rates. That left the biggest question: How large should the increase in business taxes be? After a supposedly climactic session last Tuesday turned into a shouting match, the weary conferees agreed to let Packwood and Rostenkowski try to break the impasse. The two met on and off--at times with a few aides, at times alone--well...
...grand jury investigating his death has already indicted several of the young men who were with him on the last night of his life. The jurors last week began looking into a range of broader questions about the pervasiveness of drug abuse on the Terrapin team and the manner in which the university and Coach Lefty Driesell administered the varsity basketball program. The university responded last week with a number of reforms in the basketball program designed to better the academic performance of players...