Word: path
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Along the way battalions of unarmed police halfheartedly tried to block the protesters' path. Again and again the police were pushed aside by students who sometimes reached out to shake the hands of the startled men. "The People's Police love the people," the marchers chanted, "and the people love the People's Police!" One protester playfully snatched an officer's hat, and another threw it about like a Frisbee...
...into the spring sunshine to watch and cheer. Food vendors handed out free drinks and popsicles. Those who did not join in the march climbed atop buildings, billboards and subway entrances for a better view. At one intersection workers broke through a line of 200 police to clear a path for the procession...
Apparently, female bishops are the last straw for John Paul. Referring to the talks begun in 1982, he declared that the Anglican move to women priests and bishops "appears to pre-empt this study and effectively block the path to the mutual recognition of ministries." Though the Pope's opposition to women in the clergy is well known, this was his chilliest statement on the ecumenical implications...
...stability is crucial to countries on both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute. The King has brought in Field Marshal Sharif Zaid bin Shaker to oversee preparations for parliamentary elections in the near future, which should bring a degree of democracy to a largely authoritarian land. But whatever path the new government takes, the people face several more years of austerity. "Sooner or later, Jordanians will have to adjust to a lower standard of living," admitted a top adviser to the King. "There's no other...
...Republican Party had a strong antiabortion plank in its 1988 platform, and George Bush has become a steadfast pro-lifer, though he got there by a meandering path. He was once quoted as opposing a constitutional amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes...