Word: stewardship
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...little bit of the weight on their backs. "If you work here and look around at the rest of the profession," says Howell Raines, who runs the paper's feisty editorial page, "you realize that if this place disappeared, it would not be reinvented. That imparts a sense of stewardship." The upside of this sense of mission is that it makes the paper careful in its judgments, scrupulous about corrections, conscious that its words can instantly become conventional wisdom. The drawback is that it can discourage innovative journalism...
...Thousand Acres" -as-film eventually achieves a fascinating symmetry with the events of its own plot. Like an epic sweep of land or a childhood resentment, a Pulitzer-winning novel is a difficult inheritance, and without proper stewardship can degenerate quickly. The cornerstone virtues of the film-Shakespeare's brutal story and Smiley's ingenious new context-are enough to sustain a solid two-hour drama, but Pfeiffer excepted, the filmmakers reap little from the rich soil they have been handed...
...staff, charity and the building and maintenance of churches; leaders will invest a certain amount--in the case of the Evangelical Lutherans, $152 million--as a pension fund, usually through mutual funds or a conservative stock portfolio. The philosophy is minimalist, as Lutheran pastor Mark Moller-Gunderson explains: "Our stewardship is not such that we grow the church through business ventures...
...line with Israel rose further after Clinton's disappointing meeting with Netanyahu at the White House this month. But the Israeli Prime Minister could hardly have felt much inclination to move after listening a day earlier to Gore's performance before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Saying the stewardship of peace rested with "my friend Bibi Netanyahu," Gore declared, "We will never permit anyone to drive a wedge between the United States and Israel." (This was a bit of pandering Gore could have dispensed with: a week later, Netanyahu is facing a possible indictment, and peacemaking is on hold...
...baking those books," she said. "We're not providing them with the proper level of stewardship...