Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern. The signers of the seven-point declaration included the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the United Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church in America, the Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ. The political spectrum ranged from right-whig TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell to Bishop James Armstrong, the liberal Methodist who heads the National Council of Churches. Twenty-three Roman Catholic bishops added their names, as did Jewish Leaders Albert Vorspan and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman. The prestige of the clergymen, as well as the wide variety of their views on religious and social issues, gave special impact...
...drink makers are wooing the guzzlers with a flood of new brands. Nine colas have been introduced by major producers in the past 15 months, which is more than in all the years since John Styth Pemberton whipped up the first batch of Coca-Cola in 1886. Says Richard Armstrong, president of Dr Pepper, which has brought out two new brands since last fall: "It would be unusual for even the computer industry to compress so much activity into so short a time...
When the vote was held Thursday afternoon, the Reagan compromise on taxes was rejected, 11 to 6. Chiles offered the Democratic revenue-raising figures, and they were approved, 13 to 4. Only three Republicans (Armstrong, Indiana's Dan Quayle and Iowa's Charles Grassley) and Democrat Fritz Hollings, who favors a freeze on most federal spending, voted against the package. Domenici claimed that he had cut a deal with Chiles only to move the issue to the Senate floor. There he intends to fight against the tax increases that his own committee had just approved. Despite this rationale...
...sell the U.S. coins at prices based on the going rate for gold bullion, plus sales tax and a commission expected to range from 4% to 8%. Late last week shoppers in New York City could pick up a shiny new 1-oz. medallion bearing the likeness of Louis Armstrong...
...conservatives' main targets are the National Council of Churches, whose president is United Methodist Bishop James Armstrong, and the national bureaucracies of the council's key member denominations, particularly the Methodists and the United Presbyterian Church...