Word: paule
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Almost every analyst or forecasting group of any substance has offered opinions over the last few weeks, regarding the performance of the economy for the last half of this year. Paul Krugman, Alan Greenspan, Paul Volker, and several other members of the Fed, posted their forecasts. The CBO and FOMC issued long reports weighed down with unimaginable data and their projections...
...Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, hopes that the church would abandon celibacy were dashed by the election of the conservative Paul VI. A severe shortage of priests may prompt the church to reconsider. Since Vatican II, seminary enrollment has dropped 75%. Cutié, suspended from clerical duties, is grappling over whether to wed his girlfriend of two years. If he takes the secular path, he won't be alone: an estimated 25,000 former priests are married and living in the U.S. today...
...Paul S. Stein, a Newton district administrator, said that although the city is considerably less diverse than Cambridge, Newton’s large size and various neighborhoods present “a unique set of demographics.” He added that the suburban community is actually far more socioeconomically diverse than is commonly thought. Approximately 30 percent of Newton students are minorities, versus 60 percent in Cambridge...
...What kind of health-care reform would Republicans like to see? Four conservative GOP lawmakers - Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina, along with Congressmen Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California - introduced a proposal on May 19 that looks a lot like the one John McCain advanced during his presidential campaign as well as an idea George W. Bush advanced as President...
...British colonial rule Singapore developed into a free port where import and export duties were scrapped and passing ships could cheaply purchase all their rigging, provisions, and bunker oil. As the industry grew, the figure of the ship chandler passed into Singapore's literary lore, appearing most memorably in Paul Theroux's 1973 novel Saint Jack, the title character of which is a sly but soft-hearted hustler who sells dreams of romance with female "escorts" along with his sundry goods...