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...Though the general pattern of spiritual life remains, convents have adopted new practices since 1977. Nuns in tropical climates, for example, need not wear the customary woolen habit. Daily hours may be shifted to local needs, and a prioress no longer has absolute sway over her convent. Beyond that, however, in rare cases nuns have abandoned the habit altogether. Also, sisters are occasionally leaving the cloister for personal missions like visiting a sick parent, and, with special permission, for more mundane matters like schooling. A prioress in Barcelona even appeared on a TV talk show. "These are the exceptions that...
...word is hardly unimpeachable. In 1983 he fled to his native Greece to avoid being tried on charges of perjuring himself before a grand jury and taking $1.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor (see box). Veliotis has produced tapes and company documents that he claims reveal a pattern of waste, corruption and cover-up at General Dynamics. In a tape of one talk he had with Lewis, for example, the chairman suggests that Veliotis reassure James Ashton, a discontented Electric Boat executive, that he is still in the running for a promotion in order to keep him from "popping...
...group calling itself the African National Congress of South Africa broke off from the original ANC, claiming that South African Communist Party influence had "tied the ANC o the ideological position of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in World Affairs and has abandoned the pattern of non alignment to which the ANC has subscribed since the 1950s...
...voice-recognition systems in most of these devices can be compared to a human searching through a key ring for duplicate pairs of keys; by aligning two keys at a time, he can quickly locate any pairs that have identical sawtooth patterns. In the electronic equivalent, a spoken command is transformed into a varying electrical current that can be represented by a wave with a characteristic set of peaks and troughs. This wave form (see diagram) is converted into a template, a pattern of zeros and ones that the computer can digest and store. By prerecording a number...
...system of apartheid is totally repugnant to me," said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington, responding to questions about the Uitenhage tragedy. "The pattern of violence has underlined how evil and unacceptable that system is." Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Chester Crocker, who was in Cape Town for talks with South African officials, declared that "the cycle of violence must come to an end now." But President Reagan, speaking at his news conference on the day of the killings, suggested that "rioting" marchers were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some...