Word: pattern
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...swift or easy solution is in sight. The eventual outcome has import far beyond The Netherlands; for the Dutch church is often regarded by liberals elsewhere as a "pluriform" pattern of the future. If so, it may be a future minus a priesthood. Opposition to celibacy and the Vatican runs so deep that only 15 seminarians sought ordination in Holland in 1978. There are only 2,900 active parish priests left, compared with 4,175 at the close of Vatican...
...strategic intentions. Two of the mechanized divisions were positioned in western Afghanistan, and more troops were on their way there. In addition, two to three other divisions still in the U.S.S.R. were said to have moved westward toward the Iranian border. To some intelligence analysts in Kabul, the pattern pointed to the possibility of a strike into Iran if the Khomeini regime were to disintegrate...
...would put the Texaco logo in letters 17 in. high on its trucks, to replace the small sign on the door of the cab, which was not very noticeable from 50 ft. away. They also promised to think about some other steps like beefing up security and changing the pattern of deliveries, although nobody will start to ride shotgun...
...National Science Foundation, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United Technologies Corp. The sponsors hope that the show can help close a gap in science education in the early grades. Says CTW Research Director Milton Chen: "In surveys of science achievement, you see a pattern of declining interest in science around junior high. We're trying to intervene earlier to try to encourage kids to stay tuned in to science." Another goal: stimulating interest in scientific careers among minorities, who now make up only 4.4% of scientists and engineers, and among women, who constitute just...
...stronghold of Italian capitalism. Three weeks ago, still another Fiat official was almost routinely shot in the legs as he walked to his home in a Turin suburb. The "kneecapping" was the city's 124th terrorist attack to take place in 1979. Novelli insists that this pattern of violence "has not interrupted the carrying out of our duties for one hour. We have given Turin a government. In the five years between 1970 and 1975 there had to be seven elections for municipal council. Even so, he acknowledges wearily, "reality has turned out to be far more complex than...