Word: voids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sham," arguing that it would give a "green light" to Salvadorans to "do anything they damn well please." Democratic Representatives Tom Harkin of Iowa and Gerry Studds of Massachusetts announced plans to introduce a resolution in the House that would declare the Administration's report "null and void...
...candidates media ploys, public pronouncements, travel schedules, deployment of personnel--White briskly showed how every little tactical choice carried the potential for making or breaking a campaign. And in 1976, when White refrained from writing about the presidential sweepstakes, no one else's electoral post mortem could fill the void. Jules Witcover's painstakingly researched Marathon came surprisingly close, but even casual readers of the genre could see it lacked the romance of The Making of the President series...
...alarming and perplexing void that followed Haig's resignation last week, the belief took root that his consuming appetite for power was at least partly responsible for his demise. He wanted to be President. He wanted the one position still denied him in his singular zeal to straighten out this nation and reorder the world...
...finding someone to write the words for his songs. "I don't see the challenge as making it right now, as much as finding a person who can do really good book and lyrics," he says. "Song is music and lyrics--you don't write music in a void...
...bishops who are linked all the way back to Peter and the Apostles: the apostolic succession. Anglicans have a special problem that the international dialogue must soon face directly. The reason: in 1896 Pope Leo XIII declared that Anglican orders are, and always have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests at all. (An added complication is Rome's insistence that women cannot...