Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...most serious dampener on anti-government church action is the very fact that there is a sizeable pro-Marcos bloc, which forces the moderates to balance the two groups' demands in order to avoid polarization. Through generous dispensation of money, and granting of favors the government lobbies certain churchmen as if the were U.S. Congressmen. Imelda even has a Jesuit speechwriter...
...order to pay the poor...
...have long sought autonomy from both countries. The other school maintained that the Soviet move was basically a defensive, self-contained operation aimed at rescuing a crumbling client regime. The military overkill, one Western European envoy argued, simply represented "typical Russian thoroughness-using more force than necessary in order to make sure." In any case, no one disagreed with the argument that the introduction of brute Soviet power into the region had raised a fearsome set of further options-most of them Moscow...
Bakal chronicles some of the well-known charity deceptions that gulled the generous. Baltimore's Pallottine Fathers, a missionary order, collected about $56 million between 1970 and 1975 to feed and clothe the poor but spent much of it on Florida real estate. Nebraska's Boys Town eagerly solicited funds after it built up a net worth of well over $200 million and an income from investments that was easily enough to cover operating expenses...
...Couple of Comedians, Narrator David Ogilvie-gagman of the title team -makes a list, in descending order of status, of the Los Angeles hotels favored by showfolk. He does it perfectly, beginning with the Bel-Air, ending with the Montecito. This may seem a small felicity, but it is precisely the sort of thing that writers of parboiled Hollywood romans à clef usually get wrong or skip altogether in their haste to get to the casting couch and the boudoir...