Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poses a conundrum about the man and his views. Although Mexico is largely anticlerical and Poland is Communist, the vast majority of their citizens are Catholics who have been reared from infancy to respect the papacy. But the U.S. is a pluralist, secular, sexually permissive society, and in the past two decades Americans have come to view with suspicion all institutions and authority, social, political or religious...
...Chicago, where a crowd of 1,000, shivering in upper-40s cold, chanted, "Long live the Pope," outside his bedroom window at 10 p.m. John Paul appeared on a second-floor balcony and wagged his finger playfully at the crowd like a father telling his children it was past their bedtime. At 5:30 a.m. he was awakened by chants of "We want the Pope." Though he appeared weary at times, most notably Thursday night, he drew strength from the crowds. He told an Italian TV interviewer: "When I first arrived in New York, I felt tired and it looked...
...union will also seek to obtain a built-in cost-of-living clause--a condition that other unions have unsuccessfully sought in the past...
Fiscal officials expect no difficulty in using up the added funds. In the past more students have asked for jobs than the employment office can supply. But this year money will not be a problem, and better information about the self-help package will increase employer interest in the work-study program, Maguire said...
...past, hospitals had to perform painful, dangerous and expensive tests known as angiograms on patients with head trauma. "Now any hospital can get the same information in a few minutes without danger to the patient. We're saving lives with this," Rumbaugh said...