Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already the dioceses are being adversely affected by squeamish insurance companies that expected church liabilities to include only tumbles down rain- soaked steps. Now they are reluctant to extend coverage and even to remit payment for expensive lawsuits. New Mexico's Santa Fe archdiocese has settled 48 cases within the past year against priests who served there. Some insurers, however, are stonewalling over payments. Just before Christmas, Archbishop Michael Sheehan claimed that bankruptcy loomed and asked for added financial assistance from parishioners at all 91 parishes in the archdiocese...
Jimmy Carter, who without the Nixon apocalypse and pardon by Ford probably never would have been President, came quietly to the rain-soaked green below Nixon's coffin. His presence was his testimony, going beyond old denunciations and bitter assessments. Carter carries the memory of going on that presidential mission to Sadat's funeral and at first feeling uncomfortable about being on the same plane as Nixon. But they surveyed each other warily in the confines of the fuselage, then self-consciously greeted and sat down and talked genially about foreign policy. In a moment they had become sort...
...Phil. (rain...
After its performance at the New England Division I championships last week at Boston's Pleasant Meadow Country Club, the team was anything but blaming its fifth-place finish on the rain...
Later, thinking about it outside in the rain, I knew most of us who were there were not going to win, and Ziglar knows that. So do the AT&T executives who sent their San Francisco people to Success 1994 on the same day the company announced that 15,000 jobs in its long-distance-services unit would be eliminated in the next two years. The No. 1 motivator planted an idea for losers too: It's your own fault; don't blame the system; don't blame the boss -- work harder and pray more...