Word: consisted
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...think what we need to do is to educate the public about what we as disabled women can do, and what our dreams and aspirations consist of," said Saxton, who is herself disabled by a curvature of the spine. "We need to persuade parents of disabled children that the future can hold for that child anything that she can aspire...
Sleek and sinister, the plane resembles a death machine out of Darth Vader's workshop. Swept back in a single delta-shaped wing, its curved surfaces feature no protruding stabilizers, almost no sharp corners or bends; its dark gray-and-black skin and skeleton consist of layers of graphite epoxies and ceramics honed to extremely fine tolerances. Virtually invisible to radar, it has been called the greatest achievement in military technology since the atom bomb. With the advent of the B-2 Stealth bomber, the U.S. could be on its way to maintaining military dominance well into the next century...
That logic still holds if Dukakis is elected. His last-resort taxes might consist of new levies on securities transfers or higher rates for upper-income taxpayers. But in well-placed Republican circles, there are whispers that Bush has in Reaganesque fashion been convinced by his own rhetoric about "no new taxes." As a top Administration official puts it, "Suddenly, I see the concrete setting. Bush has begun to believe and accept that the economic expansion was driven by the tax cuts of 1981 and the tax-reform bill...
...issue of how Catholic to be promises to take on additional urgency as vocations dwindle and clergy retire. By the year 2000, faculty and administrators at Catholic colleges will consist almost entirely of laymen. Keeping an institution identifiably Catholic under such circumstances could be difficult. But, says Sister Dorothy Ann, "we're already there. Most people just don't recognize...
Rachel McDermott, a Ph.D candidate in Religion, will depart on October 1 for Calcutta, India, in the hope of improving Western scholarship on the Bengali goddess, Kali. McDermott said that her investigation will consist of studying the Bengali poetic tradition, especially during the 19th-century, devoted to this deity...