Word: maron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel also planned today to question Donald Maron, chief executive officer of Paine Webber, about the company's dealings with HUD. Wilson went to work for Paine Webber after leaving HUD and helped the company obtain HUD business...
...course. My uncle Maron thought he was a kind man and arranged to introduce us there...
...largest Christian group and the one that has dominated Lebanese politics is the Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
Lebanon's 500,000 Maronites trace their history back to the 5th century. Followers of St. Maron settled in the rugged mountains of what is now northern Lebanon. In those years, Lebanon was a haven of tolerance for persecuted Muslim and Christian sects. The Maronites, who formed a union with Rome in the 12th century, are one of the so-called Eastern rites of the Roman Catholic Church, with their own jealously guarded traditions (including a married clergy and a liturgy celebrated in ancient Syriac...