Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evolving as it recognizes other accents, other rhythms, other struggles. There was a moment when certain East Coast urban men told us everything about the universe that we could know. Then the trade routes shifted. I think that the great mesa to stand on now is on the Pacific Coast. Not a mountain, but a mesa...
...passionate talk, however, centered on what many bishops consider an equally critical problem: the growing shortage of priests. By the latest count, at least 1,000 of the 22,733 U.S. parishes have no resident clergy. The future looks even bleaker. The number of priests (now 53,522) is certain to decline as the population of Catholics (54 million) increases. By the year 2000, experts estimate, there will be only half as many active priests as there were in 1965, when there were only 46 million parishioners...
...bloody battle for sales in a slumping U.S. auto market. With 30 car companies and an unprecedented 600 models on the scene, and with ten Japanese "transplant" factories in North America expected to help create an excess carmaking capacity of 2.7 million autos by 1991, the marketplace is certain to be littered with casualties. A leading indicator of the struggle was the dismal performance of Detroit's Big Three during the July-September quarter, in which they all lost money on their North American operations and posted a 27.5% decline in total earnings...
...major objection is a moral one. Social conservatives object to policies they see as sanctifying homosexuality and further threatening the traditional family. John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, was in the forefront of the fight against the proposal on that city's ballot last week to provide certain domestic-partnershi p rights to municipal workers. He called the idea a "serious blow to our society's historic commitment to supporting marriage and family life...
...presidential contest over, Kitty's interest in state affairs dwindled. Her stage by now was bigger. A New York publisher paid her a large advance to write a book about the campaign, another undertaking that troubled her wary husband. Soon she was questioning colleagues about the propriety of telling certain sensitive anecdotes. The demands of the book only added to Kitty's numerous pressures. Finally, she lost control...