Word: radford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...offered to fly the troops to Africa, and announced plans for its own airlift of additional food aid. On Saturday the U.N. began moving food to the interior. Private humanitarian groups applauded the new efforts, but were worried about the arrival of the troops, which British relief administrator Mark Radford warned "could create additional security problems, and that would be disastrous...
...worst fears, asserting that the church is at the beginning of massive disruption. Sister Anne E. Patrick of Carleton College in Minnesota says that "we're dealing with cultural change on the scale of the 1st century, when Gentiles entered the Christian faith without adopting Jewish practices." Similarly, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a radical Catholic who teaches at a Methodist seminary in Illinois, says the church could be facing its most intense conflict in centuries. As she sees it, the choice is between "genuine transformation into an open community" and "retrenchment as a Roman sect...
...likely to have trouble getting to states where abortion is legal -- are the ones least likely to master the procedures for performing an abortion safely. It is small comfort that hospital emergency rooms would be obliged to treat any woman who developed complications. "Abortion is minor surgery," says , Barbara Radford, the head of the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers. "But you need backup, you need proper equipment, you need proper medication...
NASA critics see a disturbing parallel between the shuttle and the proposed space station. The concept of the station evolved in part to provide a useful mission for the shuttle, which could be employed to carry crews back and forth to the orbiting base. But, say Ronald Brunner and Radford Byerly, researchers at the University of Colorado, the station was more important to the NASA hierarchy as a megaproject to stem the decline in the agency's manpower, which by 1981 had dropped to 22,000 from a high...
...central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing for years, a good-bad movie. It will shock some of the innocent, titillate others and amuse...