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BORN: Jan. 10, 1949, Monongahela EDUCATION: Clarion U, B.S., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Cathie; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Financial-consulting-firm owner; banker POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994. ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1284, McMurray...
...area became a sea of flame." Kokura, Niigata, Nagasaki and Hiroshima seemed to have been spared; but they were on a special list. "Day by day, Japan turned into a furnace from which the voice of a people searching for food rose in anguish," wrote Shigemitsu. "And yet the clarion call was accepted. If the Emperor ordained it, they would leap into the flames." On Okinawa, Marine Private Eugene Sledge and his compatriots prepared for the invasion "with complete resignation that we would be killed...
...clarion call is to downsize the government," says Tom Weimer, chief of staff for the House Science Committee. "In the future, we are looking at a substantially smaller federal investment in science. The House id dead serious about cuts to balance the budget...
...clarion call for unilateral withdrawal from "the territories" went against the grain of the unbridled popular euphoria in the wake of Israel's stunning military victory. It was only some decade-and-a-half later, following Israel's Vietnam-like experience in Lebanon, that his writings and speeches began to win attentive audiences across Israel...
...Standard Rate & Data Service and National Demographics & Lifestyles, 37% of households in the area participate in Bible studies, one of the highest rates in the U.S. (The figure for Los Angeles, for example, is 14%.) Furthermore, 97% of 2,500 residents polled by phone by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger said Knox should not have been fired. Says Republican state senator Mike Gunn: "Christians feel, rightfully so, that there has been an assault on our Christian commitment, on our Christianity...