Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity this summer to visit the Heidelberg Project and found myself standing in the middle of the street in awe of the beauty before me. The thousands of used shoes (soles) represent all the lost souls in Purgatory hoping for mankind's prayers to help them ascend to heaven. Guyton's polka-dot theme is seen everywhere, sending the message "I don't care what race you are, if you are black or white or even polka dot, God's love sees no colors." JUDITH ZABAWSKI Sterling Heights, Mich...
...teachings of their charismatic leaders, Applewhite and Nettles, who claimed to be extraterrestrial representatives of the "Kingdom Level Above Human," the cult members believed their bodies were mere vessels. By renouncing sex, drugs, alcohol, their birth names and all relationships with family and friends, disciples could become ready to ascend to space, shedding their "containers," or bodies, and entering God's Kingdom. "If you cling to this life, will you not lose it?" Do asks in the Heaven's Gate manifesto...
With a mixture of paranoia and passion, the teachings rail against Judaism and Christianity and complain of oppression by nonbelievers, evil "Luciferians," whom they say will be "plowed under" in the apocalypse. Only those vessels prepared to receive the word will be fortunate enough to ascend when the time comes. Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox. Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom Level Above Human appointed a representative to preach the Kingdom of God to earthlings. This being inhabited the container called Jesus (also known...
...pennants in its day, but for the first time in many years, some rebuilding may be in order. Yet Arledge, after nearly 20 years as news-division president, may not be on the field to guide the team to a comeback. Last week ABC announced that Arledge, 65, will ascend to the newly created post of chairman of the news division. Replacing him as president--and eventual successor--is David Westin, 44, currently president of the television-network group, but a man with no news experience. (Westin will report to Arledge--who previously reported to Westin. Both jobs were described...
...Europe, Johnson is preparing for an anticipated shift from government-run pension plans to direct-contribution retirement systems like the 401(k) plan common in the U.S. Managing such plans in the U.S. has given Fidelity access to some $120 billion and provided the means for it to ascend to the top tiers of finance. The biggest target for expansion is Britain, where Fidelity established a beachhead in the summer of 1995. It now manages $170 million in assets there; by 2010, Fidelity group president Robert Reynolds predicts, funds in Europe, including Britain, will roughly equal those in the current...