Word: ordainment
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...chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...compensation gap grows, so does the pain gap. At a time when Americans are paying higher health-insurance premiums for more restricted services, the CEOs of health-maintenance organizations--who ordain who shall be treated and who shall not--are banking pay packages far more than double the average CEO compensation in other companies of comparable size and performance. A prime example: Daniel Crowley, CEO of Foundation Health Corp., a California-based hmo. According to one expert, Crowley's average annual compensation for the past three years was $6.1 million, besting his counterparts in other industries by 277%. Now that...
...April 1945 was an inspiration, for their long journeys to California had a transcendent purpose. Even as Soviet troops were massing on the outskirts of Berlin, even as American and Japanese forces were suffering epic losses in their closing battles, the delegations gathered by the Golden Gate to ordain an end to war for all time...
Sometimes an issue that has been simmering for years comes into sharp focus. This autumn the role that women play in the church is causing turmoil in two large, parallel denominations, the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week Anglicans voted to ordain women as priests, and this week American Catholic bishops meet in Washington to discuss a pastoral letter on women's participation in the faith...
...women's reformation continues to shake up the Protestant churches as well. Fierce conflicts have occurred in the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Since local congregations have power to ordain, there is a sprinkling of women pastors and lay deacons. But the rising Fundamentalists who run national agencies passed a 1984 resolution against the practice and do all they can to discourage it. Even in the more progressive Presbyterian, Methodist and United churches, leaders worry about the implicit "patriarchy" that excludes women from the powerful pulpits and relegates them to small parishes or associate positions...