Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Missionaries don't think of that. They only want to proclaim the word of God. Numbers have nothing to do with it. But the people are putting prayer into action by coming and serving the people. Everywhere people are helping. There may not be a big conversion like that, but we do not know what is happening in the soul...
What complicates the issue is that the electronics industry is as divided as the Administration on these questions. Even as U.S. chipmakers cry for tough Government action to open Japan's vast chip market to increased sales of American-made semiconductors, U.S. computer makers, who stuff their machines with foreign chips, are worried that trade tension could endanger their supply. In recent months, joint ventures between U.S. and Japanese chipmakers have multiplied at such a rate that it is getting hard to tell where one country's interests end and the other's begin...
...Glenn and Arizona's Dennis DeConcini and John McCain had persuaded them to intervene with federal regulators on his behalf, Keating baldly declared, "I certainly hope so." Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, one of the few members of the House Banking Committee who does not accept contributions from political action committees, says that if the allegations against him are true, Keating is "a financiopath of obscene proportions -- the Rev. Jim Bakker of American commerce...
...Government has filed a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering suit to try to recover some of the money that Keating and his family are said to have taken out of Lincoln. Several class-action suits charging that Keating siphoned off millions to sham corporations in Switzerland, Panama and the Bahamas have been filed on behalf of 23,000 mainly elderly California bondholders. During the two years that Lincoln stayed open after the five Senators met with San Francisco bank examiners who wanted to shut Lincoln in April 1987, the cost of paying off the S & L's federally insured depositors...
Aoun denied responsibility for the assassination, branding it a "loathsome crime," and he is by no means the only possible suspect. Some Lebanese thought the professionalism of the bombing signaled a foreign intelligence service in action. Iran, Israel and Iraq were leading candidates, since each backs militant Lebanese factions that could suffer if the plan succeeds...