Word: stewardship
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...America gratefully recalls his skillful stewardship through Congress of this nation's first civil rights legislation in more than eight decades...
Corning has grown successfully under the stewardship of a single family for five generations. Founded in 1851 by a frugal Yankee named Amory Houghton, Corning is still controlled by the Houghton family, whose members are estimated to own 40% of its stock (worth roughly $440 million). Its current president is a great-great-grandson of the original Amory, boyishly intense Amory ("Amo") Houghton Jr., 36, who stepped up after Decker, 61, was named chairman last year. Like his predecessors, Amo Houghton is dedicated to the formula of freewheeling, long-range basic-research spending-he is fond of calling it "patient...
Under its terms, The Netherlands will turn West Irian (as the Indonesians call Dutch New Guinea) over to U.N. stewardship until next May 1, at which time administrative control of the territory will pass to Indonesia. No later than 1969 (giving the Indonesians six years to establish their control) Indonesia will conduct a U.N.-supervised plebiscite in West Irian in which the colony's 700,000 Papuans will decide either on independence or final annexation by Indonesia...
...Interior, the Consistorial Congregation supervises and changes the boundary lines between dioceses, advises the Pope on naming new bishops (except in missionary and Eastern Rite lands). Headed by Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, a smooth, elegant bureaucrat with 35 years' experience in the Vatican, the congregation also receives the stewardship reports that each bishop must present to the Pope every five years...
...cash. Tithing thus becomes an act of worship, expressing the giver's personal commitment to God. Says Dr. John Anschutz of Washington's Christ Episcopal Church Georgetown: "We emphasize not so much tithing as the convinced Christian's need to take a serious look at what stewardship really means: it is a definite commitment, a very real investment of one's time, talent and treasure. Tithing is a small proportion of this overall investment...