Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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From a military angle, the release of the hostages makes a war against Iraq more manageable. With these innocents out of the line of fire, Saddam's opponents have a clearer shot at him. But, as the Iraqi leader surely anticipated, this unexpected show of goodwill makes it harder for the Bush Administration to sell an offensive action to the American Congress and public, which were already proving to be tough customers...
...running time, primarily pageantry. A funeral procession was eliminated. A 3 1/2-minute ballad about the hero's adulterous love was compressed to 30 seconds. A formalized yet rousing 12-minute battle scene was fought and won in five. Musical exchanges between a Portuguese trader and a Jesuit missionary became clearer and quicker as dialogue. Almost every show in tryout undergoes revision, but few weather change of this magnitude...
Never was the collective and irrational vilification of the press any clearer than at the Silber election night reception. Even before the candidate's lead in the early returns had faded, a fraction of his diehard followers, gathered at the main ballroom of the Prudential Sheraton, were itching for a fight with the assembled media...
...jobholders. Too many priests, synod members concurred, have lost their sense of mission and spirituality, often facing a crisis of faith as well. The conference's solution is to improve the quality of priests by selecting them more carefully, training them better in church doctrine and encouraging a clearer commitment to celibacy as a sign of their "countercultural" calling. "This is precisely why we need a celibate clergy, to make people ask what we are doing," said Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk. "If the church is singing the same tune as everyone else, then who needs the church...
...nation will not long sustain an enterprise whose only object is to keep Americans in the wasteful, oil-guzzling style to which they have become accustomed. As time passes, the President will keep the support of Americans only by giving them a larger and clearer sense of the purpose of the mission. If the stakes are as large as the world's economic order and the danger that Saddam Hussein, armed with nuclear weapons, might eventually set off a Middle East holocaust, Bush should explain that...