Word: partnering
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...wrote an influential doctoral dissertation summarizing Vatican rulings that justified the use of "psychological insights" to assess failed marriages. Since then American clergy have psychologized enthusiastically. The Archdiocese of Chicago, for instance, will now consider annulling the union of a "person [who did] not intend to care for his/her partner...
Robertson might actually turn out to be a more compatible partner for Murdoch. The two share similar conservative political views. And even though Robertson may be no fan of Fox programming, Murdoch would be unlikely, if he gains control of the Family Channel, to turn it into a clone of Fox. According to those familiar with his thinking, Robertson, the former minister and presidential candidate, now 67, wants to direct his resources to his religious enterprises, including Regent University, the educational institution he founded in Virginia Beach, Va. The News Corp. deal will give him the wherewithal to do that...
...that's not how a lot of folk see it. "You can't have the biggest force in society, business, concerned only with maximizing profits and still have a socially responsible society," says Cohen of Ben & Jerry's. Says partner Greenfield: "When it's just trying to maximize profits, business lobbies for laws that would be most helpful, even if it means polluting the environment. That's not exactly in the best interest of society...
...also be found in specialty video stores) this week and next at New York City's Cinema Village Theatre. But the actress is getting more than kudos; she's getting work. Yeoh (pronounced Yo) is now filming the new James Bond epic, Tomorrow Never Comes, as 007's partner. "I won't be a stereotyped Suzie Wong," she says proudly. "With this movie we're beginning a new generation of Bond girls...
Such formal prose does not entirely squelch the sort of tomfooleries that Pynchon devotees so eagerly search out. When, for example, Mason takes offense at a remark by his partner, Dixon asks, "Tell me, what'd I say?" The anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number...