Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the 1976 General Conference repeal a four-year-old policy statement that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching." Repeal would have laid the groundwork for future ordinations. The delegates swamped the proposal and even vetoed a proposed sexuality study. Last year New York's Bishop Ralph Ward raised conservative hackles by not ousting a pastor who openly admitted being a homosexual...
Other hospices, like the one at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital Center, now flourish within existing medical institutions. In fact, at St. Luke's, the hospice patients are not kept in a "death ward," but are scattered throughout the hospital, where they are regularly visited by special doctors, nurses and counselors attached to the hospice program. Members of the regular hospital staff report that watching the way hospice people treat the terminally ill has helped them modify their own behavior. "When a patient knows he's dying," one doctor notes, "you can't just...
...financier's boldest takeover attempt was his 1954 assault on Montgomery Ward. He spent $500,000 soliciting proxies, and barnstormed the country to line up nearly a third of the mailorder firm's voting stock, but ultimately failed to gain control. So he went after a slightly smaller target: American Motors. Wolfson had bought $4 million of AMC stock before Chairman George Romney talked him out of a takeover and converted him " into a messianic promoter of the Rambler. Wolfson would talk up the little car to barbers, taxi drivers, anyone he encountered, even offering to finance their...
...where they found a man who was lying in the lobby with what seemed to be severe stomach pains. They transported him to Cambridge Hospital, and after giving him to the staff there they sat for a few moments in a little waiting room off of the emergency ward and joked about the case...
...Chinese physicians' visit to Harvard included tours of the Cox Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute and the oncology ward at Children's Hospital Medical Center...