Anglican leaders speak of a society awash with "pick and mix" spirituality, in which people choose beliefs and practices to suit their private needs.
RANDIE BENCANANN San Francisco, Feb. 7, 2012 To the Editor: As a former employee of a Catholic-run hospital, I find it appalling and inexplicable that the party of "individual rights" would stand up for a religious bias rather than for the non-Catholic employees who are deprived of the right to choose health insurance commensurate with their private needs and beliefs.
"The last thing we want is to see retired leaders using their political power to serve their private needs behind the scenes, intervening with reform and social progress," says Wu Zuolai, a popular blogger and scholar at the Chinese National Academy of the Arts.
Once citizens in wartime were told to cut back and make do, sacrifice their private needs for the national effort; now if Isis hates the West for its smug, childish brutality, we're going to win by being more smug, more childish, more brutal, more bloated, more obnoxious, more selfish, more stupid than we were before.
Once citizens in wartime were told to cut back and make do, sacrifice their private needs for the national effort; now if ISIS hates the West for its smug, childish brutality, we're going to win by being more smug, more childish, more brutal, more bloated, more obnoxious, more selfish, more stupid than we were before.
The last thing a person letting you into their private world needs is to be greeted with a scripture predicting their roasting in Satan's Kitten Heel Emporium for all eternity.
What the NHS's doom-mongers – who fear that NHS patients will be squeezed out as trusts seek to boost their private work – need to answer is where they think these extra private patients are going to come from.
"The private needs to look at the quality in their labs.
This is impractical, though, for most business and private needs.
Early care and education is a special market sector because it serves both public and private needs (Warner, 2006).
It's all a series of choices, priorities and trade-offs between competing public and private needs and capabilities.
