Word: profession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stopped attending class to provide round-the-clock sexual service to two men. The girl's relatives fatuously assure one another that her self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
Most of the major Sudanese parties profess nonalignment with the superpowers and avow unity within the Arab world. The leading contenders in the elections, the Umma Party and the Democratic Unionist Party, share traditional religious roots. Neither, however, is as militant as the National Islamic Front, which pushed Nimeiri to adopt the strict Islamic law that mandated punishments like amputating the hands of thieves. The party and its charismatic leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, still have a large constituency among the poor and the young. But analysts predict that the Umma Party, lead by former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi...
...Sandinistas openly profess solidarity with other revolutionary movements. On the outer walls of the Arab-Libyan cultural center in Managua are snapshots of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi reviewing troops. When Colombian terrorists raided the Palace of Justice in Bogota last year and had to be blasted out by government troops, the guerrillas were portrayed in the state- controlled Managuan press as victims of a governmentinstigated massacre...
What are you weaknesses? Everyone has weaknesses, so if you profess to have none, the interviewer will doubt your self-understanding. Don't catalogue your weaknesses, though--state one or two briefly and as positively as possible. For example: "Since I am meticulous about details, I usually work right up until a deadline proofreading my work until I'm completely satsified." Do not waste time apologizing or making excuses. Turn the professed weakness into a strength...
Believers usually explain that they are attracted to old-time Bible faith by the certainty of its answers to religious questions. They profess its power to make life meaningful and wholesome, to provide clear moral guidance and to offer a sense of spiritual redemption through Jesus Christ. "People are hungering for truth," says Contractor Calvin Beeler, who worships at a small Berean Baptist church near Charlottesville, Va. Baptist Susan Baker of Del City, Okla., who was widowed this year at age 25, testifies that faith pulls her through her grief: "I never do feel like I'm alone...