Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another aspect of Falwell's crusade has received less attention but is at least as important in its implications. He is mobilizing and altering the consciousness of that once insular component of American religion known as Fundamentalism. Before Falwell, Fundamentalist preachers denounced evil in "the world" in order to compel their flocks into strict isolation from it. Nowadays those same jeremiads are a stern call to social action. "When I was growing up," recalls Fundamentalist Pastor Keith Gephart of Alameda, Calif., "I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost...
...cities were an irresistible magnet for internal American migration. In the 1970s, however, that path was reversed as nonmetropolitan areas grew by 14.4% and metropolitan areas by 10.5%. Since 1980, however, that "rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization; its future...
...Strauch Committee's report addresses almost every aspect of the graduate program, but all of its conclusions feature a familiar refrain: a need for drastically increased funding...
...confidence in Congress continues to warfe with its impotence to instill financial stability, one would think that our representatives would long for a chance to step off the merry-go-round and relinquish an aspect of the budgetary process contradictory to their main mission in Washington: to bring regional interests into national legislation. As it represents the largest number of people, Congress has always had, and should continue to have the main responsibility for controversial fiscal policy. But recently we speak of a world economy. Regional and special interests are vital. But national and international considerations (more the responsibility...
...joins six others at the top in the long-lived, seven-man Harvard Corporation, the University's top governing body. At 335 years, the Corporation is the oldest incorporated, self-perpetuating body in the Western Hemisphere. Technically, it exercises complete control over every aspect of Harvard. Together, the men oversee Harvard's massive $600 million annual budget, a job that has come to occupy most of their time. No small task for just seven men, the Corporation members oversee University investments, conduct fund drives such as the successfully concluded $350 million capital campaign, manage the budget for twelve different faculties...