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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aroused intense controversy in 16th century Spain when she organized a branch of Carmelites to return to the severe solitude and renunciation practiced by the early Christian hermits. For centuries thereafter, the order was among the strictest in the church. Nuns meditated and prayed on behalf of others and speech was restricted. Members lived entirely behind high walls and spoke to outsiders only through metal grates or other barriers...
...Thatcher government welcomed the Weinberger proposal and promised "urgent consideration." The response came against the background of a speech, approved by Thatcher advisers, in which Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month compared the Star Wars program with France's Maginot Line, the vast defensive wall designed before World War II as a means of protecting France against a German invasion; when the test came, the line proved useless. Howe also raised questions about the effect of Star Wars on the Western alliance's policy of nuclear deterrence and the possibility that a project of such magnitude could...
...fees that can hit $225 an hour, the specialists try to create a complete image--from corporate hairstyle to speech--for the ambitious man or woman who is still a few tantalizing rungs from the top. Self-styled "wardrobe engineers" advise men to discard cheap ties and reject anything in polyester. Women executives are cautioned to button up at the collar and resist the current custom of walking into the office in running shoes...
...Sandinistas see it, the evacuation has other advantages: it could boost agricultural production while giving Managua greater control over some of Nicaragua's subsistence farmers. In a speech last month, Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman noted that while independent peasant farmers worked 48% of the nation's farmland to produce 26% of the crops, large cooperatives using only 24% of the land grew 49% of the harvest. Each of the new camps is attached either to a collective farm or to a privately owned cooperative, where some of the refugees have been given work...
...blesses us with his presence," Mabeta said, urging in his speech that Bok explained them why Harvard has not yet divested. Mabeta and the student protesters invited Bok's response in a letter which they slipped under the door of Mass Hall...