Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk of college basketball is dominated by the tawdry and venal, reliance on the rock of moral principle seems almost as anachronistic as the smothering defense Princeton plays. Allegations of point shaving, reports of doctored transcripts, illegal payoffs to players and graduation rates that should shame college presidents abound. Television and the money it provides to broadcast games have corroded the soul of the sport. Each of the 64 teams to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament receives a payment of around $286,000. If a team makes it to the Final Four, the payout is a whopping...
Such cases -- and others abound -- raise anew an issue that many hoped John F. Kennedy had laid to rest with his famous speech to Houston's Protestant ministers in 1960. His candidacy had disinterred the old charge that a Catholic could not be trusted with the nation's highest office because of his allegiance to the Vatican. Kennedy's response was direct: "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act." As President, he would decide issues "in accordance with...
Other examples abound. When a doctor was brutally murdered by a half- deranged derelict at New York City's Bellevue Hospital last year, the press promptly pointed out that she was not just any doctor. She was "full of life" and blessed with a "brilliant mind." The nightmare of Hedda Nussbaum and her murdered Lisa was the saga of not just another battered wife but a once lovely, once successful, patiently suffering woman who had been possessed by a diabolical...
Models of creation -- the how but never the why -- abound among cosmologists, the most widely accepted being the Big Bang, which in no way forbids the existence of a creator who might have touched it off. One recent hypothesis holds that our universe was born as a microscopic ripple in a perfect vacuum, not so very new an idea, since Thomas Aquinas proposed something similar seven centuries ago. Although the good saint was never excommunicated for such heretical views, he was under constant fire from zealots as a sort of premature secular humanist...