Word: tug-of-war
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...Democrat-controlled legislature wearily acceded to most of Republican Governor Pete Wilson's hard-nosed school-spending cuts and at last produced a balanced $57.4 billion state budget. Wilson's signature at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, half an hour after the approving vote, concluded a fiscal tug-of-war that had locked the state in financial limbo for 63 days. Out of cash since July 1, Sacramento issued 1.5 million IOUS worth a total of $3.4 billion -- at least when state employees or dependent-care workers could find a bank willing to cash them. Among those...
...support, the Republicans must stoke the anger of people like Smith. To woo evangelicals, the Democrats must convince them that Clinton and Gore are not only moderate but better able than their rivals to deal with the real problems of the middle class. The stakes in this religious tug-of-war are high: the Southern Baptist Convention alone boasts 15 million members. Four years ago, the white evangelical vote was nearly 20% of the electorate...
...have touched off savage neighbor-vs.- neighbor wars, like those in Moldova; in Georgia, where South Ossetians have been fighting to break away and join ethnic brethren across the border in Russia; and of course in Yugoslavia and in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent on aid from richer nations for survival. At a recent international conference French President Francois Mitterrand worried out loud "whether in the future every tribal group will dispose...
...moment, the American bishops can take comfort in the bedrock loyalty and surprising contentment among women parishioners. But the tug-of-war over the bishops' pastoral letter is only a foretaste of more severe conflicts that lie ahead. Hammered by new views of morality, authority, personal rights, the family and motherhood, the Catholic tradition is increasingly being cast on the defensive in Western nations. Women, whether or not they ever become priests or bishops or Popes, will help determine the outcome...
Church concern has served to highlight the most interesting aspect of the growing popular veneration: the theological tug-of-war taking place over Mary's image. Feminists, liberals and activists have stepped forward with new interpretations of the Virgin's life and works that challenge the notion of her as a passive handmaid of God's will and exemplar of some contested traditional family values. "Mary wants to get off the pedestal," says Kathy Denison, a former nun and current drug-and-alcohol counselor in San Francisco. "She wants to be a vital human being...