Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his election, Kolvenbach quoted to friends a passage from St. Teresa of Avila: "Let nothing bother you, let nothing dismay you." He did not finish the quotation: "Everything passes ... Patience gains all... God alone is enough." A fitting motto, perhaps, as the Society of Jesus enters...
...paragons of progressivism. But woe unto the state that suffers from a bad revenue base. New Hampshire, which taxes neither sales nor income, is an unfortunate case in point. Residents must pay unusually high levies on real estate but receive substandard public services in return. The state's motto, "Live Free or Die," may have a brave historical ring but makes little fiscal sense. The origins of good leadership, or the lack of it, are as varied as the states. Peirce and Hagstrom suggest that Missouri's skeptical show-me spirit accounts for the caliber of such...
...motto for potential defendants today is "Be prepared." Some corporations are setting up million-dollar escrow funds to pay damage claims. Others are increasing their insurance coverage. One worried potential defendant upped its coverage last year from $5 million to $25.5 million. The prudent possessor of the deeper pocket: the Brentwood, N.Y., school district...
...After a five year life span as the Space Table, the club was disbanded when the new master David A. Aloian expressed disapproval of the radical behavior. Earlier this year, the group tried to re-form under a new name, The Split Infinitives, based on the popular Star Trek Motto, "To boldly go..." However, this strategy too failed and the group of students eventually found the room locked during meals, one close to the club said...
Earlier this year, the Quincy House Space Table tried to re-form under a new name, "The Split Infinitives", based on the popular Star Trek motto, "To boldly...