Word: parliament
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...business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry...
With Phoumi out of the way, the bickering among non-Communist politicians also died down. The fairest parliamentary elections in Laotian history went off without incident in July. Only 25% of the incumbents got themselves reelected, but the government won such an overwhelming victory that when the new Parliament met it gave Souvanna a rousing vote of confidence, with only four abstentions...
...taken for a sucker!" stormed Rainier to a reporter in June. So was Onassis, in one sense, for the Prince enjoys a royal veto over S.B.M. decisions, and the tycoon's only recourse was to protest bitterly to Monaco's 18-man Parliament. He accused Rainier of cutting casino betting by 60% when he outlawed pigeon shooting several years ago (because Princess Grace vowed she couldn't bear the sight of dying birds littering the promenades). Onassis is willing to sell out, but his price is the current one of $17 a share, up from...
Their destination was hardly good news for Premier Moise Tshombe, who was busy in Leopoldville preparing for the opening this week of the first Congolese parliament to meet in two years. Although Tshombe had managed to put down the bloody Simba rebellion and hold elections throughout most of the Congo, there was still a large rebel pocket in the mountainous area of the eastern Congo around Fizi, just across the lake from Kigoma...
...their theologians were delighted with the announcement. Then they began to wonder. Would Paul give the synod a share of the policy making powers that are now tightly clutched by the conservative, Italian dominated Roman Curia? Or would the synod become the church's equivalent of the subservient Soviet parliament ?an assembly summoned only to approve, not to decide? The answer is solely in Paul's hands, for he characteristically specified that he alone would determine when the synod may meet and what it may discuss...