Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsor," says his mother Dolores, an administrative assistant at a local community college. "I decided, before I go through with this I want to see if maybe I'm not right and they're wrong," Brian recalls. Brian refused to go through with the ceremony, becoming a born-again Christian a few years later...
...long way toward explaining the Melendez persona by looking at how he arrived at Harvard. His route to Cambridge brought him a long way from the fundamentalist, born-again Christian community in Ocala, Florida to which he moved at age six. His family, he says, "is really into the Pentacostal, fundamentalists Bible-thumping revivalist tradition of born-again Christianity" associated with the Moral Majority. For much of his childhood, his family also was quite poor, living "in a mobile home in a dingy little trailer park in the outskirts of town." He says, however, that his family has become more...
...years. During the campaign, Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers eased his stance on atomic power. Despite a strong commitment to expanding his country's nuclear capacity, Lubbers shrewdly delayed construction of two new plants following the Chernobyl calamity. That relieved Dutch anxieties aroused by the Soviet tragedy, and helped Lubbers' Christian Democrat party to score big gains...
...Kohl's Christian Democrat-led coalition continues to favor more nuclear plants. The rival Social Democrats, who in the elections will be headed by Johannes Rau, the minister-president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, want to phase out existing facilities "as soon as is feasible." The ecology- minded Greens have been gaining in strength since Chernobyl, and their demand that the nation's 20 commercial atomic plants be immediately closed seems attuned to the mood of the country; a recent survey found that 69% of those questioned oppose further nuclear expansion...
Chancellor Kohl, who has been the subject of a three-month corruption investigation that was dropped last week for lack of evidence, looks < politically weaker now than at any other time since he assumed power in 1982. Polls taken since Chernobyl show the Social Democrats consistently leading his Christian Democrats. The opposition, moreover, has been able to dictate the campaign theme for upcoming elections. Its battle cry is Ausstieg! (phased "withdrawal" from nuclear energy...