Church officials were known as clergy.
The best way to handle this situation is to tell to the guest who is in a hurry that you won't be able to take his request as the top priority because there are others who are first in line before him. It would be best to advice him that his order would still be taken care of and would do it as fast as it can with trying to explain that he's not the only one in the restaurant to assure him and prevent conflict.
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SHANGHAI—For over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Dam—the world's largest—had the potential of becoming one of China's biggest environmental nightmares. But last fall, denial suddenly gave way to reluctant acceptance that the naysayers were right. Chinese officials staged a sudden about-face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems—and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.
