Word: outlooks
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...National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. The differences were embodied in a dispute that occupied much of the convocation: the ecclesiastical troubles of Seattle's Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, 65, who earlier this year was stripped of some of his authority by Rome because of his tolerant outlook on homosexuality and other controversial subjects...
They were high-minded, sometimes high-handed, moderate Republicans from the Eastern Establishment, and they ran the party -- and the nation -- during the Eisenhower years, combining a progressive outlook on social issues with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
There was more than figurative truth in the statement. Chekhov suffered a variety of chronic illnesses. Symptoms of tuberculosis appeared when he was graduated from medical school. The fatal disease surely contributed to his doleful outlook, though it does not appear to have affected his compassion. As Troyat suggests, while Chekhov's journey to a remote penal colony was motivated by sympathy, writing The Island of Sakhalin was not a labor of love. Yet the book riveted attention on the inhuman conditions at the Czar's gulag and eventually led to reforms...
Ironically, the woes that confront so many thrift institutions come at a time when the outlook for the industry as a whole is much brighter than it has been in many years. Overall profits are expected to hit a record $6.5 billion this year, a strong rebound from the $4.6 billion loss suffered in 1981. The sharp drop in interest rates since 1981 has been responsible for much of the improvement. The fall in rates has reduced the interest that S and Ls pay to depositors faster than it has lowered the interest that the institutions earn on mortgages...
...that the "Shmen of the Year"controversy has been settled, the outlook isbullish that Harvard can trample the Bruins