Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fundamental precepts of the Christian Scientist church is a reliance on prayer to heal illness to the absolute exclusion of conventional medical care. Therefore, when Ian complained of stomach pains, his family, in strict compliance with and full faith in the proscriptions of the Church, began to pray...
...Parker's Othello is the more standard of the two, a solid reading that pulls out the stops on an easily played organ. This is, after all, a soap opera of the had-I-but-known variety. All the Moor has to do is ask his wife's servant, "Pray, did thee swipe fair Desdemona's hankie?" and the misunderstanding is resolved as smoothly as any episode of Home Improvement. But then there would be little allurement in the role for some of this century's most dominant actors...
...control tower, Air Force Colonel Neal Patton, who has been in charge of installing runway lights and precision navigation equipment and otherwise getting the field ready, expresses confidence that it can handle the planned traffic. But he adds, with a laugh, "We're going to go to church to pray for better weather." Snow and low ceilings last week caused several flights either to be held on the ground at the Ramstein air base in Germany or to circle Tuzla fruitlessly and go back, unable to land. The miserable conditions do have their bright side, however. "There's nothing like...
...their tax cuts or putting back into the negotiations the half of the budget they've taken off the table: defense and Social Security and other entitlements for the well off. The alternative is to fix Medicaid later. In effect, that's Plan B for antsy Republican Governors, who pray that if the President doesn't save them by scaling back the cuts, there will be time to revisit the issues before disaster strikes. Maybe they'll get lucky. But judging by experiences in Arizona and Tennessee, two states that went early down the road to Medicaid reform, Governors...
Surely one race doesn't know best. That is not the legacy I am going to leave them. They are going to admire good people, pray for bad people and help when they possibly can. There won't be perfection in my family, but we will contribute to the betterment of the country as a whole, not in parts...