Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monastic life is a call from God to live one's Christian life in a particular way," he adds. "It is an offering of the whole of one's humanity to Christ, which includes one's sexuality...
Single-interest groups are needed because particular dams, freeways and threats to civil liberties have particular victims who do better by organizing a particular response. Without the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, the nonEstablishment majority would have no one to defend them against the single-issue groups in and around the Government...
...President, the numbers of party victories were less troubling than the particular winners and losers. Potentially strong Republicans had captured key governorships: Richard Thornburgh in Pennsylvania, William Clements in Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was re-elected Governor of Michigan. Perhaps most threatening of all, Jim Thompson won re-election in Illinois by 600,000 votes-demonstrating that he is a moderate Republican with broad appeal in a big industrial state. He has not denied that he might run for President in 1980. Said Thompson: "The Republican...
...Americans are not currently covered by any type of pension plan. In addition, many of those who are covered never see a dime of the money they or those employers have put away for retirement, either because of the loopholes in the law or the inadequacies of the particular pension plans...
...readily concedes that more than a few of his customers may be moved to buy a Rocky copy not because they know anything about the particular work but because they are reassured by "the prestige value, the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" of the man who has the original. But, he adds, "I've always bought art because I love things. Art does something for me that's important." He believes what the real thing does for him, the copies can do for others...