Word: needed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pension bomb [Sept. 24] need not go off. Defusing is simple: require potentially productive people to produce. A hcalthy 70-or 75-year-old voluntarily livng on a pension financed for the most part by today's productive workers is livng on welfare. Jobs must be restructured to take seniors into account, and jobs must be available for seniors. If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force...
Perhaps more important, John Paul left behind a morally imperative message for a people who seemed to need it. His visit showed with surprising clarity that many Americans of many creeds are looking for direction, for stability. They found themselves attracted to this strong, virile figure, a natural leader who was both compassionate and stern. The charisma spared nobody. Waiting for John Paul's motorcade, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim confessed: "This is one of my greatest experiences." In Boston, Henry Cabot Lodge, 77, the former Massachusetts Senator and an Episcopalian, and his wife Emily, 74, stayed with the Pope...
Finally, John Paul's presence and words reminded Americans?and the world?that humanity does have a higher nature. Said Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, leading ecclesiastical historian at Catholic University: "The greatest contribution that the Pope's visit can make to our nation is focusing upon and emphasizing the need for a revival of morality. John Paul is a man of singular sophistication; he is no pious goose. But he is a moral leader?or he isn't anything...
...need more floor space, for both intercollegiate basketball and fencing and we have begun to investigate the possiblities," Reardon said...
...handed him four mug-like shots of myself. "Why do you need these?" I asked. So they can identify the body? I wondered...