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...votes. That close decision broke 19 centuries of tradition, and it brings pressure to bear on men-only branches in the worldwide Anglican Communion (70 million members) to imitate the English mother church, U.S. Episcopalians and others. (Australia's Anglicans are expected to authorize women this week.) In England one-fourth of the bishops and priests remain strongly opposed, and some kind of split could develop when ordinations of women begin in 1994. A Vatican spokesman warned that the Anglican move "constitutes a new and grave obstacle" in the effort to reunite Anglicanism and Catholicism. Nevertheless, Archbishop of Canterbury George...
...shares in the region's overall emissions, and together they must reduce smog-forming hydrocarbons by 5.8% a year, nitrogen oxides by 8% and sulfur dioxide by 8.5%. Companies that exceed the reductions can sell emission "credits" to other firms. The market covers 2,800 businesses that account for one-fourth of the pollution in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties...
Funding is a perennial problem for the U.N. as a whole and for its richest member in particular. For years the U.S., which bears one-fourth of the financial burden, was embroiled in disputes not only with the U.N. but also between its own Executive and Legislative branches over how much it owed and how far behind it was in paying its assessments; at one point, in 1989, the U.N. claimed that the U.S. debt totaled $365 million. The U.S. is now paying off its arrears, although not as fast as the U.N. would like...
Jane Sullivan is also running a city-wide campaign but on a considerably smaller budget--one-fourth the size of Walsh's Sullivan, out of necessity, targeted a specific group, young to upper middle-aged women, to maximize the efficacy of costly campaign mailings...
...tends to back him up. A half-century ago, blacks developed cancer less often than whites. Now, in large part because of smoking, the mortality rate for malignancies is 25% greater for blacks than it is for whites. Almost half of black women and one-third of black men are severely overweight, vs. one-fourth of white men and women. In addition, the salt in soul food can aggravate high blood pressure. "We have to teach people that diet is important," says Dr. Harold Freeman, a surgeon at Harlem Hospital. "As the saying goes, if you can control your mouth...