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It happened at an Acquire The Fire rally. The nationwide organization stages Gospel rallies MTV style, and suddenly 17-year-old Jessica Ray, who was there with a Houston-based youth group she describes as "complacent," was on fire. Afterward she "took the challenge" and smashed all her CDs that...
Enter Teen Mania. Combining teens' desire to belong to a larger group while also catering to their appetite for popular culture, Teen Mania started the Acquire the Fire rallies in 1991. The fast-paced live events, with light shows, music and dancers, offer a 21st century iteration of the Gospel...
Autism was first described in 1943 by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Leo Kanner, and again in 1944 by Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. Kanner applied the term to children who were socially withdrawn and preoccupied with routine, who struggled to acquire spoken language yet often possessed intellectual gifts that ruled out a...
JC: Well, the museum is a preservationist institution. It’s acquiring things to hold, in trust, forever, for the benefit of the students, faculty and the public who come. Now, we hope that from most exhibitions of contemporary art we acquire something for the collection, but itâ?...
Sound like an awful lot of money to give to charity? In Wall Street's euphemism-speak, goodwill is more like getting taken to the cleaners. "Goodwill" is the term for the premium one company pays to acquire another, over and above the acquired company's book value. Such overpayment...