Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vatican takeover was ordered last October by Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli. In a harsh private letter to Father Felipe Sainz de Baranda, superior of the female and male Discalced Carmelites, the Cardinal indicated that Rome would side with the traditionalist minority in the new constitution. Those who dislike the result, Casaroli said, can seek "other forms of consecrated life"--in other words, leave the order...
...different assumptions. Back then, the advertising had something to do with the product. It noted that you could buy Post Grape Nuts or Freestone Deluxe tires, told you how much you would expect to pay for them, and told you why these particular grape nuts or tires were objectively superior to other kinds of grape nuts or tires...
...Iraqis took severe losses as they sealed off the invasion area east of the Tigris and advanced from the north and south. They brought vastly superior firepower to bear--helicopter gunships, heavy artillery, armor and air support --and in the end, that carried the day. "Getting the Iranian troops deployed in the marshes was a tremendous logistical accomplishment," a Western military attache in Baghdad explained last week, "but very few of those who got in will be able...
...frequently patronizing assumption that his audience has had a hard day. For example: "The problem with elites, which in our topsy-turvy times has got people all churned up is this: who defines the elite? And then, who decides that you or I do or don't meet those superior requirements? Such queries can drift us into minefields like racism and genocide, which this easygoing amusement will bypass, thank...
Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...