Word: wade
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...their way out the door, employees of the nation's fourth-largest investment bank had to wade through a crush of onlookers drawn to the carnage like sharks to blood. Reporters buttonholed staffers, asking what it felt like to lose their jobs. Executive recruiters bustled around, extending business cards to anyone whose suit suggested he or she might be a banker. A man leaning against the building's facade held aloft a printed sign on white letter-sized paper: LOOKING TO HIRE SYS ADMIN. Most employees passed through the scrum without acknowledging...
...Organizing by Senator Obama" shortly after the GOP running mate's speech at the Republican convention. And some conservative Catholics are speaking out as well, venting their disappointment with Bush policies that have not reflected Catholic social teaching and with the Republican Party's focus on overturning Roe v. Wade as the only way to address the abortion issue. Douglas Kmiec, a former Reagan administration official and Obama's most famous conservative Catholic supporter, has rushed out a book about his choice in time for the fall campaign: Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama...
...full 80% said that they could vote for a candidate whose position on abortion differed from theirs. Even so, Catholic Democrats can't afford to look like the kids in the corner who don't know their Catechism. In the future, they might want to resist the temptation to wade into theology and stay firmly in the world of policy...
...totalitarian party, which understood itself as the fulfillment of history and which negated the conscience of the individual. One of its leaders had said, 'I have no conscience. My conscience is Adolf Hitler.' The appalling devastation of humanity that followed was before our eyes." Benedict is unlikely to wade into the current debate. If he were to, the Pope would no doubt point out Newman's belief that conscience becomes complete only when the faithful follow it to the higher calling of obedience...
...contraception, education and economic support for pregnant women who want to carry their babies to term - that get at the root causes of abortion. To make this shift easier for abortion-rights advocates to swallow, Dems have beefed up the party's full-throated support of the Roe v. Wade decision. The negotiations seem to have paid off - the abortion plank has been hailed by both pro-life and pro-choice Democrats as an important step forward...