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...lines. Later they announced that Egyptian missiles had shot down a pilotless Israeli drone plane on a reconnaissance flight over the canal. But at Geneva both sides still seemed eager to put an optimistic face on their negotiations. At week's end they announced that they had reached "consensus on some principles of disengagement." If they can reach an agreement on this critical problem within the next week or two, they can proceed to talks on such detailed matters as frontiers, demilitarized zones and security guarantees...
Over the centuries, divisions between the two churches have been exacerbated by punitive excommunication, mutual persecution and outright religious war. The underlying theological differences have included such questions as the nature of the Eucharist (an issue covered in an important 1971 consensus) and the role of the priesthood. The commission's new agreement resolves some of the remaining differences by ignoring old controversies in favor of new and broader interpretations...
...McCandless, program service officer for the College Board's Admissions Testing Program, said that, "there seems no longer to be a general consensus about what it means to be 'well educated...
...bond trader who regularly had to make quick decisions on deals involving many millions of dollars, with painful penalties for failure. A long-hours man who regularly lunches at his desk (on enormous delicatessen sandwiches), Simon does not believe in large formal meetings that seek to form a consensus among those attending. He prefers to get information and advice from close aides at a series of small meetings and then make the decisions himself...
...coordinating committee tried to silence this radio station, while it controlled the radio station within the Institute. It denounced all slogans which could discredit the movement and which were not in line with the consensus of the general assembly...