Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spence should immediately appoint a committee to analyze what Harvard can do--beyond improving recruitment--to attract women scholars, recognizing the differences between these two groups...
...year-old professionals who have become disenchanted with the stodgy ritual and sanctimoniousness of many traditional churches. "This is the generation that grew up on television," says Hybels. "You have to present religion to them in a creative and visual way." The multimedia weekend services are primarily intended to attract this group into the church. Holding them together is the job of the more Bible-based Wednesday-evening services and the church's 70 subministries. In addition to offering the traditional Sunday school programs and Bible-study groups, Hybels ventures ; into more arcane activities such as counseling for sexual addiction...
...produce executive from Kalamazoo, Mich., Hybels met Bilezikian while studying theology at Trinity College, outside Chicago. One day Hybels, then an idealistic 23, stunned the older man by offering to build a new church that would use Bilezikian's ideas to attract members. Although neither had the money for such an undertaking, Hybels was undeterred...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine), who has not announced his position, did not talk with reporters as he left the White House. Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.) has said he expected Mitchell will oppose the nomination, which has failed thus far to attract the public support of any Democratic senator...
...telephone subscriber is likely to receive unsolicited sales pitches -- some of them prerecorded -- for anything from opera tickets to Oriental rugs. But what about Dial-a-Communicant? That is just what a number of church groups across the U.S. have taken up in an effort to found churches or attract additional members...