Word: swidler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordination is perhaps the most fundamental conflict between the church's hierarchy and its militant women critics. "It is the central issue because without it, there is no route to power within the church," says Mary Gordon, a lay activist and author of the novel Final Payments. Arlene Swidler, who teaches religion at Villanova, says simply, "Ordination remains the central issue because it includes everything...
...years behind schedule. With $6.8 billion in outstanding debt. WPPS is the largest borrower ever in the municipal bond market; but it can't get any more funds because Washington's voters recently approved a ballot proposition giving themselves veto power over any more WPPS bond issues. As Joseph Swidler, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, succinctly put it. "Utilities have run out of money." Nuclear power, then, is both an environmental nightmare and an economic basket case...