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Though no social gospeler, Carey is willing to speak occasionally on political issues. A staunch environmentalist who once said, "God is green," he scolded Thatcher this year when she took a swipe at the ecology movement, and he also criticized the Prime Minister's disputed poll tax. Thatcher nonetheless had no hesitation in giving him the nation's spiritual primacy, no doubt because she agrees with a preappointment editorial in the Economist that declared, "What is needed is an inspiring missionary leader for a church that has lost whatever grip it had on an increasingly pagan country." No bishop...
What if this Douglas character turns out to be just as dominating as his predecessor? What if he ruthlessly crushes all opposition with barely a swipe, nary a bead of sweat? For some reason, these questions sound rather familiar...
...spokesman Marlin Fitzwater denounced the policy as "unacceptable until conditions in Viet Nam improve." In London, opposition Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock assailed the move as a "shameful episode," accusing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of acting ! "tyrannically." Thatcher denounced Kinnock's criticism as "feeble and nonsense" and, in a swipe at the U.S., noted acidly that "those countries protesting about repatriation would do far better to take some of the boat people themselves." While the U.S., Canada, Australia and France have all taken many boat people in the past, none have offered shelter to those now facing deportation...
...call the science community protective is an understatement. It is a tightly-knit enclave that relies heavily on trust: trust that a peer-reviewer will not swipe your idea, trust that a lab is keeping accurate information, trust that the end goal of science is knowledge, not an NIH grant or university tenure...
...season and superstar stopper Dennis Eckersley soon joined him on the disabled list, manager Tony La Russa kept the Bay Area Bombers at the head of the pack. Now Eckersley and Canseco (who just unveiled a 900 number for fan calls) are back, joined by the sultan of swipe, base stealer Rickey Henderson, rescued from the clutches of the New York Yankees. Still, the A's must shake off the Angels if they hope to become the first team to capture successive flags since 1978. Says pitcher Dave Stewart, who just put together his third-straight 20-game season...