Word: manifestation
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...count, an especially eloquent and sorrowful passage in the impeachment record, accused Nixon of no specific crime but rather of acting "in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." Such abuse of power goes to the heart of the framers' conception of high crimes and misdemeanors, by which they meant offenses against the state and injuries to the Republic itself. Does Clinton's conduct reach that level...
...when Glenn goes back to the pad next October, he will go as just another crew member, a lowly payload specialist setting off for a week or so of work. But even NASA administrator Daniel Goldin seems to concede that when he inks the name Glenn onto a flight manifest, he writes more than just a name. "There is," he declared the day he announced Glenn's return to space, "only one John Glenn...
...returns as Prime Minister. This time he rules in a coalition made up of fractious and contrary parties, 17 in all, that disagree on almost every issue except one: it is time to declare India a full nuclear power, not just an ambiguous "threshold" state. After demonstrating its manifest capability to build A-bombs in 1974, India has voluntarily practiced a form of nuclear "Don't ask, don't tell" for more than two decades. Vajpayee is determined to accomplish what nine previous governments have not dared since India detonated its first nuclear device under the leadership of Prime Minister...
Clinton was more acute when he added that to try to "manifest your greatness" by detonating atomic bombs "when everybody else is trying to leave the nuclear age behind is just wrong." India seems to have missed the message of the turning century: it is economic power, not military might, that buys global influence these days. India's nuclear bid for importance is more likely to earn it international isolation than the permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council New Delhi covets...
...important topic of discussion in Italy [RELIGION, April 20]. The carbon 14 dating analysis has not solved the question of its age, at least for those who will never cease to believe in the shroud's authenticity. In one of his Provincial Letters, Pascal wrote, "God does not manifest himself to men with all the evidence which he could show." Pascal also stated, "For it is not true that all reveals God and it is not true that all conceals God. But it is at the same time true that he hides himself from those who tempt him, and that...