Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this regard that the split of feeling on the subject of homosexuality is sharpest among Christians. It has become fashionable among liberal Protestants to believe one of two things. The first is that because sins can be forgiven, it is OK to sin--that because Jesus loves all of us, He also loves all of our sins, or at least is unconcerned about them. Such a belief is obviously self-contradictory because words, thoughts, and deeds only become sins if the Lord disapproves of them...
...word--that history arranged for Franklin Roosevelt. F.D.R.'s second term represented a fairly dramatic falling off from the brisk exuberance of the first. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, with humiliating results. The Great Depression ground on. Abroad, the international order began to disintegrate. America split bitterly over what, if anything, to do about it. All of this set the stage for F.D.R. to transcend his second term's malaise by breaking through precedent to a third term and, as history would have it, moving the drama of his presidency to a larger theater: world...
...always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward. The Supreme Court generally treads lightly in "separation of powers" cases, where one of the three branches of government is being subjected to the dictates of another. If Jones won, the President would in theory have to answer...
Amidst all the commotion, some offense did manage to surface as Minnesota connected for two more goals in the period, successfully deflating Crimson hopes for a series split...
...protease inhibitors give rise to a small social revolution, they will also produce an upheaval in purely personal relations. For instance, AIDS opened a quiet split between positive and negative men, within which the new drugs may add another fine fracture. "In the past, HIV-negative guys didn't want to date positive guys," says Jim Brudner, an AIDS activist in New York. "Now positive guys with 500 T cells don't want to date guys with fewer. Everybody is terrified of becoming a caretaker for a partner who gets sick...