Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study that most universities have a hard time finding competent teachers. Dr. Thomas O'Dea, head of Columbia's religion department, estimates that it will be five years before there are enough Ph.D.s "to fill a demand that is so large it's almost a vacuum." Yet O'Dea believes the vacuum will be filled, since colleges are realizing that "without a thorough knowledge of a culture's religion, it is often nearly impossible to understand that culture...
...civil war has faded, the factions and their causes have changed, but the battles go on. There are now three political power spheres that are almost bound to collide in their rush to try to fill the post-Franco vacuum. Strangely enough, the Movimiento Nacional is not one of them. It has been reduced by Franco to a powerless bureaucracy, without credo and virtually without following, deprived even of the fascist ideals on which it was founded...
Founded by a Spanish priest named Josemaría Escrivá in 1928, Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei is an "association of Catholic faithful" that seeks to fill a vacuum that Spain's Catholic Church had long neglected: the lack of a means for developing an aggressive, dedicated, militant laity. Escrivá wanted to create, much as Ignatius Loyola had done with his Society of Jesus in the 16th century, spiritual shock troops to rekindle the true spirit of Christianity within the church. But instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with...
...Korean War criteria, they had general public acceptance. I urge that they be reinstituted immediately," Morse then wrote to Hershey. He added that local draft boards must still make their own determinations, but "unless some guidance is provided them, I fear they will make them in a vacuum...
...arena. Furthermore, as living costs have risen so has the women's desire to help their husbands earn a larger share of the good life. Thai husbands, who have a strong preference for dignified but low-paying careers in civil service and law, left a vacuum in the business community that the women have rushed to fill. Consequently, their roles cut across the entire spectrum of Thailand's commerce and industry. Women own about 90% of Bangkok's real estate and have heavy interests in transportation companies, construction firms and restaurants...