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...county normally accounts for about 80% of the district's votes, and its population has soared from 275,000 to 531,885 during Udall's 19 years in Congress. Many of the newcomers are retired people or executives of national firms with branches near Tucson. They tend to be conservative Republicans who care little about Udall's leadership position and even less for his liberal views. As a result, his winning margins have dwindled steadily, to 9,000 votes...
...that the Chroniclerefused to print it, reasoning: "the importance of cultivationg and cherishing the most friendly relations between the different sections of the city is far greater than the pleasure which we could give by the statement of evidence, or argument of counsel, which, to say the least, would tend to widen the unfortunate differences which seems to exist among...
...noted that although people tend to think of robots as anthropomorphic, they actually have no legs, no head, only one arm, and occasionally...
...these professionals largely remain outside the Hispanic community, sprinkled throughout in East Cambridge, Central Square and Cambridgeport. If they are studets, they live closer to Harvard or MIT, and if they are working, they tend to be employed in Boston or other communities, and do not share in Cambridge's cultural life...
Protestantism may not be quite as pallid as all that. One denomination in the study, the Southern Baptist Convention, is expanding, perhaps because it chooses ministers who ardently profess their biblical beliefs. Besides that, the book's conclusions are based on statistical averages, which tend to obscure the variety of vital congregations within all denominations. The survey, moreover, was taken in the mid-1970s and has only now managed to get into print. Meanwhile, according to a Gallup survey for Christianity Today magazine, younger ministers are becoming increasingly firm-and firmly religious-in their beliefs...