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Despite such resistance, the more liberal Anglican branches are now determined to go beyond women priests and consecrate women as bishops. The opposition to this step is formidable: 40% of the conference voted in favor of an Australian's motion to stall elections of women bishops. Nonetheless, facing up to the inevitable, the meeting decided to let each branch do as it pleases and then directed Runcie to appoint a commission to deal with the resulting disputes...
...year Americans snapped up 189 million pairs (sales: $1.3 billion), from retro-1950s plastic shades to space- age wire rims with mirrored lenses. When it comes to protecting the eyes, however, the emphasis on style may be shortsighted. A cheap $5 pair of sunglasses picked up at a beachside stall may do a better job than those $200 movie-star specials. What's more, the quality of your glasses matters. Says Ophthalmologist Hugh Taylor of Johns Hopkins University: "People should be able to buy the sunglass equivalent of No. 15 sun block...
...ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he stands at a crucial thoroughfare. Again and again, he has turned the path of legislation and confirmation into his private turnpike -- pay Jesse's toll or wait forever. Last week he was at it again. In an effort to stall the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, he even questioned Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's authority to sign the treaty...
...actions of the Board of Overseers and the University administration in the last few months amount to a grand stall tactic, or a massive expression of spinelessness, or both. While the President has every responsibility to argue for or against divestment in the abstract, it is cowardly for him to prevent the Board from issuing its opinion in a similarly clear...
...make sure in the second half of the race that we concentrated well," Harvard coxswain Jim Crick said. "In rougher waters, the oar sometimes catches and you stall...