Word: vestment
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...most of football season, Father James Baraniak wears his green vestment with gold lining when he performs Mass in Green Bay, Wis. And while it has nothing to do with the Packers' team colors - green is mandated by the Vatican - it is something of a holy coincidence, given the fact that he has been the Packers' chaplain for the past 13 years...
...Lambeau, and officiates at Mass for the students. (Some of them, he admits, come to his service because they know he'll finish in time to get to the game.) By kickoff, Baraniak can be seen on the sidelines in his clerical collar and black garments (his team-color vestment left at the rectory), ready for whatever might get thrown...
...students who do not regularly attend church. Held in Appleton Chapel instead of the larger sanctuary, the service is shorter and less tied to liturgy. The worship features contemporary music and a more informal homily. Page dresses informally, usually in jeans, and dons a stole—a long vestment worn over the shoulders—only for the Eucharist...
...orthodontist investing in a real estate venture, for example, can deduct from his taxable income a share of the venture's losses based on the amount of his investment. Yet his actual liability is limited--hence the name of the arrangement--to the cash value of his initial in vestment. Thus if a partner invests $10,000, or 10% of a partnership's total investment, and the venture loses $700,000, he will be able to write off $70,000 but will be liable for only $10,000. The study revealed that such losses on limited partnerships (about half...
...wears a burgundy top, a traditional, collarless Northern Thai vestment, and sits on a cushion on the soft teak floor under a pavilion next to a bubbling stream while young women in ornate sarongs parade past with plates of spicy chicken, sticky rice and boned freshwater fish. A famous oenophile, he sips an expensive Bordeaux, brought to Chiang Mai from his own cellars. His entourage, a collection of cronies and political allies for whom Thaksin has been criticized, is gathered around him at other low tables. For a putative reformist, he has surrounded himself with numerous politicians associated with corruption...