Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan at first, Feldman soon threw his support behind it in a last-ditch effort to stop Texas International. Lorenzo immediately challenged the legality of the plan. But the courts rejected his case. Continental employees still had hopes for the plan they called "the answer to a prayer...
Social Issues. The greatest controversies of all may come from a potpourri of conservative concerns sacred to Reagan's New Right supporters if not necessarily to the President, which include abortion, school prayer and busing. Already introduced in Congress are a Human Life Bill, which would protect the rights of the unborn from the moment of conception, and a Family Protection Act, which seeks to reinforce "traditional" moral values by giving parents more control over such things as sex education. Reagan and his advisers indicate that they will support but not take the lead in fighting for this type...
...couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
...This is our prayer for Charles and Diana. May the burdens we lay on them be matched by the love with which we support them in the years to come. And however long they live, may they always know that when they pledged themselves to each other before the altar of God, they were surrounded and supported not by mere spectators but by the sincere affection and active prayer of millions of friends. Thanks...
...year-old O.W. Coburn School of Law is a matter of faith. All students must be avowed Christians. Once on the Tulsa campus, they are required to sign pledges to "yield my personality to the healing and maturing power of the Holy Spirit" and "exemplify Christlike character" through prayer. As a result, the American Bar Association threatened to deny the school its coveted accreditation, a condition for admission to the bar in many states. Reason: the requirements seemed to violate A.B.A. standards forbidding religious discrimination in admissions. But in Chicago last week, U.S. District Court Judge James Moran suggested that...