Word: worde
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...Orthodox. Elsewhere, a Jew who is at all religiously observant will, more often than not, be Orthodox; of Israel's 6,000 synagogues, only nine are nonOrthodox. Far more than Reform or Conservative Judaism, Orthodoxy lives by the letter of God's law. It accepts every word of the Hebrew Bible as divinely inspired and insists that the God-fearing Jew must keep every one of the 613 rules of Halaka-the Scripture-based religious law that forbids servile work on the Sabbath, prohibits the eating of meat and dairy food at the same meal, and prescribes ritual...
...Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. issued a 25,000-word pastoral letter last week that was both a summons to continued renewal of the church and a warning against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past...
...With sadness," the bishops said, "we notice that some today, using the noble word charism or employing theology almost as therapy, ridicule the church and, under the guise of being contemporary, seem hostile to everything except their own views. What begins as necessary and solid criticism seems readily to degenerate into a destructive attitude toward life unworthy of reason and inconsistent with faith...
Responding to businessmen's complaints that some of the new rules seemed unduly onerous, OFDI aides sent out word that U.S. corporations will not run afoul of the investment curbs by guaranteeing the debts of their foreign subsidiaries. Only by such underwriting can many a subsidiary borrow abroad-as the Administration still allows-on reasonable terms. Some moviemakers, pointing out that 54% of industry revenues last year came from abroad, hoped for exemption from capital controls to enable them to continue filming overseas. And the petroleum industry demanded a ruling that money spent on oil-well drilling...
...Sadler three years ago abruptly quit as president of American Airlines. He gave the job back to Chairman C. R. Smith, who as he grew older, still dominated the airline he helped found. Smith persuaded Sadler to return and gave him responsibilities consonant with his title. Last week, however, word came that Sadler was about to quit again...