Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse, the alliance's underbelly is sagging badly. Greece and Turkey have been on the verge of war over Cyprus for months and have threatened to withdraw completely from NATO. Portugal is threatened by Communist domination. Italy has made a partial economic recovery, but still faces growing Communist strength in elections this month. Southern Europe, in fact, was the conference's dominant concern...
...Gnostics believed that a spark of divine Light was imprisoned in some men's bodies, and that redemption meant union with the supreme being through possession of the mystical, Zen-Like gnosis; a Gnostic could thus achieve gnosis and partial redemption long before corporeal death. The Gnostic creed left no room for the Christian belief in redemption through Christ's atonement on the cross for the sins of mankind. In fact, Nag Hammadi texts depict a Jesus who did not die on the cross at all. In their version, Simon of Cyrene carried the cross to Golgotha...
...last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy policy," says Barber Conable, a New York Republican member of Ways and Means. "By the Democrats' failing to block the President, we may get a partial policy...
Another quiz? Well, why not? We've come a long way since the "Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz," and if we couldn't stop the war, at least we take partial credit for there being no Class Day speaker this year. What can this mean? Harvard teaches you to limit your goals...
Abroad too there has been only partial relaxation. If Baghdad and Washington manage to improve relations, Iraq would still be left with two implacable enemies, Israel and neighboring Syria. Syria also has a strong Baath Party, which espouses the same principles of Arab socialism and nationalism that Baghdad does. But the two regimes have conflicting visions of Arab unity, compounded by some practical problems. Currently, Iraq's relations with Syria are at the breaking point over disposition of water from the Euphrates River. Baghdad charges that Damascus has deliberately stored up so much water behind its new Tabqa...