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...have joined U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February. The vague forum, devised by wealthy Lay Evangelist Howard Butt Jr., is intended to gather in one place the broadest possible collection of influential people who are at least "open to the leadership of Jesus Christ...
...Control ? all signs indicate that today's students are more poorly equipped in basic skills than were their predecessors. After holding steady for decades, the average scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the broadest standard of nationwide educational achievement, have been falling slowly but steadily since 1962. As measured on the SAT'S 200-to-800 scale, average verbal ability has fallen by 10% (to the 430 level), while average math skills have declined by 6% (to the 470s). Expectations that gifted s students, at least, would benefit from the infusion of money...
...automakers, who for years emphatically argued precisely the opposite, are now betting heavily the answer is yes. With the start of the annual model changeover period, they have begun a massive retooling effort in which they will spend a record amount, some $2.5 billion, to bring about the broadest changes since Detroit sprouted tail fins in the 1950s. Now the industry's favorite new verb is "downsizing," and the products that will begin appearing in showrooms in about eight weeks will define what that means: cars that are shorter, lighter and, if not cheaper to buy, at least easier...
...fate of The Thorn Birds will certainly not hang on literary merit. With the broadest strokes and the most perfervid prose, the novel traces three generations of the Cleary family-from poverty in New Zealand to wealth in Australia to triumphs on the London stage and in the Vatican. None of the Clearys, however, is as interesting as Australia itself. McCullough knows how to stage convincing droughts, floods and fires. Even her descriptions of landscapes sometimes flare into life...
Overall, the package seemed well designed to wend its way past the broadest political hazards. It appeases some conservatives by letting oil and gas prices rise?but does not offend liberals by removing controls completely or allowing the producers to reap higher profits. It encourages coal production and conversion, as well as a speedier expansion of nuclear power plants, without lifting environmental safeguards...