Word: reflective
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...Pentagon's Inspector General, Joseph Sherick, counters with an impressive array of statistics that he says reflect a near doubling in the amount of savings and avoided waste at the Defense Department in each of the past three years. If he is correct, such vigilance will eventually do more than simply save money. More important, it will restore the public support for a stronger defense that has been squandered by repeated revelations of the waste, fraud and abuse that Ronald Reagan pledged to conquer...
...Capote, a perennial favorite, has recently been exonerated by the fact of his death If it is him, then he's calling from a long way away. A number of faculty members, including a sizeable portion of the English Department, have also been the object of suspicion. Suspicions also reflect the biases of the student body, since Ronald Reagan is accused at least twice as often as Walter Mondale, and three times more than Konstantin Chernenko, especially...
finalist, Moses stressed that the result of the balloting do not reflect a bias against Harvard in the Brown senior class
...decision to give over the front page of Pravda to Gorbachev was more a matter of protocol than an intended slight of Chernenko. But it did reflect the unprecedented speed of the latest succession in the Kremlin. News of Gorbachev's promotion to the highest post in the land came only five hours after Chernenko's death was announced. In Geneva, Soviet negotiators signaled the U.S. delegation, which had arrived there early last week to resume arms- control talks, that business would go on as usual, despite the death of Chernenko. Said a Moscow housewife: "It looks as if they...
Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...