Word: petrelis
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...Bruskewitz has received encouragement from other bishops, and many parishioners back him too. "If you can't live up to what the church teaches," says Ed Petr of Hastings, Nebraska, "then you're in trouble...
...victimization is a direct result of the former East bloc's economic distress: in Russia alone, 75% of the unemployed are female. "The naivete is unbelievable," says Prague vice-squad chief Petr Vosolsobe. "The vision of earning hard currency blurs the girls' senses." Besides the usual promises of dance- and waitress-jobs, myriad ruses are used. One Russian student of German literature received an invitation to complete her education. She sold her stereo to pay for gifts for her "host family" in Germany, only to arrive and be forced into a brothel. Others are lured by traffickers posing as marriage...
...honors, though his stiff finale offered more stumbles than magic. He didn't win the gold medal so much as he didn't lose it. Far more satisfying were the performances of the runners-up. Defying smug expectations, two lyrical skaters -- Paul Wylie of the U.S. and Czechoslovakia's Petr Barna -- claimed the silver and the bronze, respectively...
...Petr Pithart, another newly elected deputy and a leader of the Civic Forum, said he expected six to seven new political parties would be elected into parliament...
Jicinsky said Petr Miller, a worker at the CKD industrial plant in Prague and senior Civic Forum representative, was suggested as social affairs minister...