Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liberation reaffirms the earlier document but knits its warning about false, atheistic schemes into a positive discussion of human liberation as the work of God. The document affirms social justice as an essential responsibility of the church and even offers a carefully couched allowance for political revolution. The obvious aim: to position Rome as the leader of "authentic" liberation, as distinguished from unworthy forms...
TAKING THE ANTI-CONTRA people at their word--that is, assuming the Contras to be reprehensible--one must ask what they were trying to hide by censoring such an obvious rogue. The advance of information and understanding will never do harm to a just government or a just cause; only leaders who cannot answer to their people need the services of a censor...
...most obvious answer--and the one we hear from supporters of disinvestment--is yes. We want to help Blacks achieve their freedom, they say. Black South Africans know their own situation best. So they understand best what we can do to help them, and we should defer to their judgment...
...seems obvious that if the junior faculty will be doing less teaching, the senior faculty should teach more. But that isn't clear in the dean's plan. We call on him and the faculty to specify a new policy toward teaching as clearly as they have flushed out other aspects of the plan...
Aged pitchers, like old fans, might be expected to minimize Gooden's brief achievements. But not Hall of Famer Robin Roberts. "I think maybe we're the most impressed of all," he says. "We know what he's doing, what a gift he has. It's obvious that his start is better than anyone else's, even Feller's. His control is better than Feller's." A big leaguer at 17, Feller was Gooden's age before he found the plate. "Go up and hit what you see," Bucky Harris used to advise his Washington Senators...