The idea that a young woman must be a virgin when she marries has generally faded in many segments of Bulgarian society during the last 50 years.

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Virgin, with a young, efficient fleet of airliners, does well in most of them.

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The new young pretenders of aviation are people such as Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic and Herb Kelleher of Southwest, neither of whom can see a member of his staff without hugging him or her.

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Bernal's austere tale of a young woman who goes on a healing crusade after seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary, which stars Filipino actress Nora Aunor, took the prize with 32 percent of the vote.

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