Word: took
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...With the century ticking to a close, its most sensational, hard-charging, consciousness-raising pope is growing weak. Early on in his papacy, a colleague predicted he?d be around for the turning of the Big Odometer, and John Paul took it -? and the Jubilee that would mark it -- very seriously. The next 20 years, from his precedent-bending inaugural speech from the Vatican balcony to his two-week pilgrimage to thank his first flock, were a run-up to this, a global celebration of humanity and the faith 1 billion of them hold dear. He worked tirelessly to bring...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataPresumably, Greenspan will stop worrying too -? if he ever started. Many saw the Fed?s "bias shift" in May as a virtual rate hike, one that showed up in the market?s interest rates and took some steam out of stocks without the central bank?s actually having to do anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August...
...because the direct line was tainted with the hemophilia gene inherited from Britain's Queen Victoria. Needy and apparently pliant, he thus became the acceptable heir to Francisco Franco, military dictator of the kingless kingdom of Spain. At Franco's 1975 death, Juan Carlos, above, at his 1962 wedding, took the throne. Spaniards expected little. But the King pressed the move to a constitutional monarchy. When militarists opposed it and attempted a coup in 1981, the King himself rallied the troops to save democracy. Few Spaniards now question the need for Juan Carlos...
...would say, "I wish I had known how she felt about that." He had no intention of publishing it. But a friend of his, a history professor, convinced him it was a wonderful document of the period. After much soul searching, Otto decided to do it. He took out things he thought hurtful to people--and five pages where Anne writes of her parents' marriage, about how she realized it wasn't a marriage of love. Anne's mother loved Otto very much, but it was an arranged marriage, and while he was kind, he did not love her. Still...
...still "mother, mother, mother," when it really has to be "mother, father, society." It's quite outrageous that the rich, powerful U.S. is one of the few modern industrial nations without a national child-care program. We are backward in that respect. Before, men had wives who took care of the details of life. And because of that, men became too divorced from the concrete dailiness of life. Now they are beginning to carry the baby in the backpack and share in the details of life...