Word: philadelphia
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...Sister Grace, a conservatively dressed woman with gentle blue eyes and short brown hair, helping the poor has been a lifelong ambition. As a child growing up in New York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift...
...need to train a super cohort who can lead the difficult school systems," said Deidra A. Lyngard, the communications manager for Pew Charitable Trusts, the Philadelphia based foundation which granted $270,000 for the program...
David Challinor, 69, of the Potomac Boat Club of Washington won the men's veteran singles for the fifth consecutive year in 23:31.03. Karin Loewy of Philadelphia repeated as women's veteran singles champion...
...made them make mistakes," Lem said. "If this continues, some interesting things will be happening at the Ivy League tournament [held November 10-12 in Philadelphia]. We'll know our standing by the way we play in our invitational...
...sharpest since the market plunged 508 points on Oct. 19, 1987. In terms of points, it was the second largest loss in Wall Street history; in percentage, the day ranked twelfth worst. "It's total emotional and psychological chaos," said Eugene Peroni, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia brokerage firm. "People are dumping < everything. A great deal of money is being lost...