Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outnumbered by Polynesians. "Our recruiting is not predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably the most married college football team in history, counting some 30 happy unions. The Cougars' most talented pass receiver, Glen Kozlowski, has two children, and he's a junior...
Even so, some doctors believe that mixing the profit motive with the Hippocratic oath is a poor way to provide medical care. Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, criticizes companies like Humana, saying that they are "industrializing medical care" and are more interested in turning a profit than providing health services. Relman argues that the chains will eliminate necessary medical programs rather than take a loss on them...
...years has been scraped off the giant columns and intricate carvings of the North Portico. The Seneca sandstone is a light tan with brown striations. The naked surface gives the mansion more depth and a shadowy European flavor. Whoever comes back down Pennsylvania Avenue next January after taking the oath of office as President will be the first newly installed Chief Executive to see the pristine stone since Andrew Jackson's time. Pray that Old Hickory's spirit still resides thereabouts, because the new President will need all the help...
...silence, by a second fusillade. Meanwhile, photographs showed "positively, unerringly and incontrovertibly" that there was no movement whatsoever in or around the van during the opening five-shot salvo. In short, the memo concluded, De Guzman's account, which was corroborated by 13 other soldiers under oath, was "nothing but a tall tale, a fabrication from beginning...
...extortion. The inevitable clash between the new and old Mafia resulted in a sensational series of shootings and stabbings on the streets of Palermo in the mid-1950s. The killings marked a sinister turning point in the history of the honored association: henceforth no code of honor or oath of loyalty would prove stronger than the lure of incalculable profits in the drug trade...