Word: vocals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever vocal Anglican left too appears ready to accept the new Archbishop. After all, Carey has raised $900,000 in his diocese for inner-city aid and has written, "I have never found it easy to believe in God." Moreover, Carey strongly supports priesthood for women; he has even asked priests in Bath and Wells to consider resigning if they oppose women's ordination. His appointment, in fact, is read as a signal that church leaders and Thatcher's Tory government assume that women priests will get the go-ahead during the new Archbishop's reign. On the other hand...
...audience--or at least the male portion of it--continued its vocal enthusiasm throughout the movie. Dice kept his racist and homophobic jokes to an uncharacteristic minimum, but the healthy repertoire of sexist jabs elicited screeches and wails of approval...
...further agreed that the Universityneeded a reorganized administrativesystem--Pusey's small staff in Mass Hall wasunable to handle the demands of the rapidlyexpanding bureaucracy. And faculty members werebecoming increasingly vocal in their calls forredesign of the undergraduate curriculum...
...course, this neglect of his responsibilities has become hardly surprising from George Bush. When he vetoes FMLA, it will be his twelfth veto. And he is not vetoing bills passed narrowly by the Democratic congressional majority. The FMLA is an example. This bill received vocal support in the House not only from Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Co.) but also from Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) and Rep. Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), as well as more than 30 other Republicans. And in the Senate, where the bill passed unanimously, not only Sen. Ted Kennedy...
...support any nation's right to self-determination. Their lofty concern apparently does not extend to Quebec, Slovakia, Palestine or other areas where minorities are seeking nationhood, perhaps because U.S. voter rolls do not include large numbers of French- Canadians, Slovaks or Palestinians. Though Lithuanian Americans have been highly vocal, they are small in number and there is no organized Lithuanian lobby in the U.S. But millions of Americans of East European ancestry nurse a long-standing and understandable grudge against Moscow...