Word: wanteds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems there is a ground-swell sentiment in favor of turning the concept of a club into more than a distasteful slogan; these people want to bring such groupings into reality. In other words, it is the drive to create artificial social divisions at Harvard...
...Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life" but acknowledged that "to some there might be a contradiction there." Democrats attacked the decision, but so did Republicans. Said Republican Senator Bob Packwood: "We are on the wrong side on the issue...
...Sister Grace, a conservatively dressed woman with gentle blue eyes and short brown hair, helping the poor has been a lifelong ambition. As a child growing up in New York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift...
...other search and concordance functions make the machine far more valuable. Want to find every place in the Bible where "taxes" appears? Just punch in the word and sit back. The computer displays all the books where the exact word is found, and a simple added command then brings each text to the screen. Taxes turn up but once in the King James, in Daniel 11: 20. A handy extension of this feature can also search for all variant forms, such as taxed or taxation (there are eight...
...spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin-based PC maker that bears his name: "There are no more places on the shelf for another computer. There are more than you'd ever want to name...